and dining office, enjoy our services. oh, be our guest at frankfurt airport city managed by from waterloo, with a dw news live for lead russia attacks ukraine as the west promises more military support. you've crania to take to bomb shelters, amid aid for raj, a missile ends roan attacks. the strikes called the day after germany and the u. s . pledge to send tanks to your brain. a deadly cold stops. weeks across,

sleeps across asia from afghanistan to japan, sub 0 temperatures and heavy snow are causing pay off the 1000000. i didn't want to think of football thought minute break the deadlock at the last minute to come away with 3 crucial points in their back against mike. ah, i'm sorry, kelly, welcome to the program. at least one person has been killed and others are injured after russian forces fired more than 30 missiles at several targets across ukraine . officials telling residents to remain in shelters. 15 of the drones were down around the capital heave. the mayor confirmed a huge explosion. the attacks come a day after germany and the united states announced plans to supply ukraine with modern battle tanks. after days of diplomatic wrangling,

2 big announcements from either side of the atlantic to day to day i'm announcing at the united states will be sent in 31 abrams tanks to ukraine. the equivalent of one ukrainian battalion surgery austin has recommended to step. because on hash the cringe capacity, the finished her turn achieve his strategic objectives. the u. s. president statement came just hours after germany announced it will deliver 14 of its leopard to battle tanks to ukraine. ok, does this does a given us, this is the result of renewed and intense consultations with our allies and international partners. or we'd like to underline that it was right. and it is right that we didn't let ourselves be forced into action. now that we instead counted and will continue to count on closed corporation on these issues,

international pressure had been growing and germany to agree to send lipp at 2 tanks to ukraine or to at least lift an export ban on the german may tanks or other countries could supply them that last week and meeting of defense leaders from more than 50 countries at ramstein air base and germany failed to produce any agreements chance loan of shows was unwilling to send german tanks. unless the u. s. made a similar commitment. that diplomatic gamble seemingly paid off the agreement to supply the tangs as a huge political turnaround for germany. and it's a major boost for ukraine. western battle tanks like the leopard and the abraham's or what ukrainian president followed me as a lensky has long been pleading for and many say they could be a game changer in the wall. yet it was, i am grateful to all our allies of our willingness to provide us with modern and

much needed tanks over his proofs for most important fat for a while to day. for fat for freedom is only getting stronger on the way we are all working together to strengthen freedom, to defend ukraine in europe, is a historic achievement of a part of a leaders who are working on it right now. but zalinski also stressed that speed as now key. while the 1st leopard tangs could arrive in ukraine and the next 2 to 3 months. the white house has already said that it will likely be many more months before it's abrams tanks will arrive at the front. and earlier i spoke with correspondent mathias ballinger about the new missile attacks on ukraine this morning. yeah. and was another attack with misses and with jones are pretty much what we've seen before. major cities targeted in ukraine, that means the capital. and also cities like odessa, as

a foreclosure or there have been explosions in these 3 cities are in odessa. we are hearing that are some energy infrastructure was hit again and that there are consequences, meaning power is cut off and part of the city and water supply here. and key of we heard an explosion earlier. it seems that a rocket was shut down upon entering into the air space above the city and it fell on to a building um and non residential building. that's what the authorities have said. a one person has died and 2 were injured. that's what we know. so far, a lot of massage, we're flying again. same pattern from a shot from planes are and many of them were intercepted. we have heard that are the authorities have been seeing that 15 massage flying on to keep have been intercepted, but there's always an amount of rockets that make it through and that hit targets

within the country within the cities and mathias, what are we to make of the timing of this most recent strikes, especially given and that we had the announcement of the last and germany sending tank. steve grain was very likely that this is a reaction to that or the russians. they need time to prepare these kind of attacks . but they did half time considering that everybody was expecting this decision for some days now. so it's pretty likely that they have timed this attack or to come after these decisions. they have been furious at these decisions. but of course, there is never any proof for these theories, a lot of talk and that both sides are preparing a so called a spring offensive encounter offensive. tell us a little bit more about the details in terms of what you're hearing. yeah, of course there are no, not really any details known and liked it kind of in the nature of things her that

her, these plans are not disclosed before. they are happening, but we have been hearing about both military experts have said that spring would be a time when to expect another offensive or by either side. or we have heard speculation maricia my too much on keith again from the beller russian side. but that's at the moment sir, seems to be very speculative. western services have not seen the preparations necessary. the mass deployments necessary in bella rose to make another attempt. and of course, within the russian military or somebody planning such an offensive would have to explain why this time it would work out here is a big city. it's difficult. it would be very difficult to enter the city, considering that russia has tried for a month now to enter the much smaller town of baltimore than although they have made some advances. um deb capabilities are not that high for the ukrainian side.

expectations are that there will be another counter offensive or when the weather conditions get better when they are and, and possibly also after these tanks arrive. because these tanks, they are of course critical to the planning tanks are what breaks through the enemy lines. they are crucial in offensive operations retain her so far, sad that it had been held back by having not enough tanks at the hand and not enough advanced tanks at the hand, or they could have achieved much more. we will see, of course, whether this is true after the tanks arrive and we don't really know about the timeline, whether they will he not have enough of them. but one expectation is that the next target that ukraine might attempt at it would be in the south in as a board is your region. that would be a very valuable area for ukraine to make gains because that's the connection between crimea and the her son are blessed on the one hand and the

a don boss on the other hand. and it would disrupt russian operations probably to march into their matthias bollinger and keith. thank you. and the additional weapons for ukraine could play a vital role and keith's efforts to repel the russian invasion. but russia is showing no sign of backing down. analysts say that it is laying the groundwork for a new offensive in the spring. here's a look at some of the weapon tree that russia has, its, has at its disposal. since the end of world war 2, russia has held the title as the 2nd strongest, global military. after the united states, before its invasion of ukraine, russia claimed nearly 1000000 personnel. 1500 combat aircraft, 7600 pieces of artillery and the largest tank force of any army in the world at 12400 units. russia was a formidable force on paper, at least following its failure to reach key of in the 1st few weeks of the war.

many western analysts have come to doubt that russia's military was ever as strong as a claim to be. eventually, president bowden. russia will realize the full extent of their strategic miscalculation outside of moscow little is known about the current size of russia's arsenal. but what it's brought out on the battlefield has been largely catalogue by investigative journalists. dutch researchers from the outlet, oregon have documented that russia has lost at least 69 aircraft, 560 artillery pieces, and 1600 tanks. the us military, however, claims that russia may have lost as much as half of its tanks so far. some analysts point to russia's use and ukraine of the t $62.00 tank as evidence that it's armoury is in dire straits. the t $62.00 is a relic, introduced while the berlin wall was under construction. this photo is from a russian museum of military history. ukraine's government has also claimed that

moscow will eventually run out of long range missiles thing. russian factories cannot replenish the stockpiles. yet their estimates from november were proven to optimistic when russia stepped up its long range bombing campaign. in the last weeks of 2022. building a bomb takes longer than dropping one. but the kremlin says weapons factories are working overtime, quite literally to supply its invading forces. hootin recently visited in arms manufacturer praising the workers, hopa circling all this can only inspire confidence that victory will be ours for ukraine's part with so many of its factories and depos destroyed its best chance to counter rushes. military might, is to keep supplies flowing from its international partners. and with russia reportedly preparing for a spring offensive. i asked

a senior visiting research fellow for war studies at kings college, mike martin, how strong the russian military really is. at the moment. i think the russian military has gotten a lot of manpower and we hadn't do. so the mobilization in the also when we go to further mobilization going on now, much of that is poorly trained in a full morale on this severely lacking in advanced equipment of the type that ukraine is. fielding ukraine says, and you, you mentioned that the previous mobilization, ukraine says that it thinks russia plans to mobilize an additional $500000.00 soldiers. and so i'm wondering, you know, when you stack that up, for example, against the new tank commitments from the west to counter any fresh russian offensive. how, how do you think the calculus turns out there? i think the answer this lies in the different styles of warfare. so what russia is trying to do is generate a huge army, as we said poorly trained and they will fight in a traditional trench style. you know, martin,

blood and guts type of war fact. whereas ukraine has already demonstrated its ability to conduct maneuver warfare, so destroying the russian supply lines nipping round the back. and that's exactly what these tanks will do. so i think they will make a difference because they'll enable ukraine to pumps through the russian lines and to maneuver behind them. and russia can't really respond to that because it doesn't have the level of training or the mechanization of its forces. how quickly do you think that difference can be made from what you know about how long it takes to train the ukrainians, for example, to deliver such weapon train. when do you think we could start to see results? i think that really this political decision was made at the law safe moment. obviously we're not going to join ukrainians on the phone, you know, 6 months training course of whatever water that needs to be done. the secret equipment that the west has in these tanks needs to be stripped out before they go to the crane, then the ukrainians needs to be trained on them in some like poems. you can

probably do that in a couple of weeks. and then the whole lot, the cruise and the tanks and the logistics pipeline to, to ukraine. i think 6 to 8 weeks is the minimum time frame that they can do that. ok, meantime russia has called the western tanks for cave, quote, a blatant provocation. what sort of possible retaliation do you think can be expected? well, usually what russia does and you know, russia said everything's a place in publication. i mean, invited ukraine. what's gonna happen is they're going to noise off like they're doing now, and then they're going to bomb some civilian at, you know, blocks of flats or whatever in retaliation. that's really important because there's no way that they can go militarily. they can't up the stakes militarily. they're not going to the neighboring countries. right, but mike, i just want to follow up and pick apart what you just said there. because i mean, one of the big concerns, you know, examples that they could escalate towards nuclear perhaps in the form of

a tactical nuclear weapon, or that this conflict could indeed escalate to directly involve nato member. so given this most recent decision, how high do you see those risks? so, is russia going to allow the conference to widen, into a se, poland, which is covered by the night. so, article 5 security guarantee drugs in america, newly of the western states? absolutely not. it, russia is absolutely very keen as nicer is to avoid that. that would be the end of the war in mesa, cyber. and in terms of nuclear, we've seen nuclear threats from russia throughout the conflict. and they've tailed off recently and the way they've tied. the reason they towed off recently is because the west called the bluff and said, you don't want to use nuclear. the cold war, the rule still exists. me sure destruction stop talking about nuclear and russia has stopped talking about it. ok, mike martin, senior visiting research fellow in the department of war study i king's college london. thank you so much for joining us to share that expertise and that

perspective. thank germany's defense minister boris storia says, visiting bundeswehr troops for the 1st time since taking on his new role. the minister met with soldiers in the alt and global military training area in the eastern germany state of saxony on halt. he confirmed that german made leopard tanks are due to arrive in ukraine sometime in late march or early april. the debbie is benjamin alvarez. goober has more on what the german defense minister had to say while visiting the troops. he sat, he once again em talked about the criticism that the german chancellor shows was too late with the decision to sent the german tanks. and he said exactly what you just mentioned that they could be in ukraine by the end of march or early april. that there will be the training now there. and the idea of this visit that comes on the 7th day in office is talking to the soldiers. he said there was

a very important to talk to them to know exactly what the problem saw that they are facing. and to get this inside, he oversaw several exercise of shooting exercises with him. a small, a guns with rifles, but also with the puma. that's an infantry vehicle of the german armed forces to then say that it's important to keep in touch and to also help them for everything . handing over weapons to ukraine. a, you know, there are some reports that that could cause gaps in already existing replacement deficits. has the defense minister clarified how he might handle that? and those are not just reports. he said that it's a pretty difficult balance that he has those conflicting goals on one side, as you rightly mentioned, to get new weapons for the bonus, we're also to try to reduce the time for them to get this new weapon system. one of the question was also, if germany was already getting the weapons that had already had sent to ukraine,

and of course, when it comes to the leopard tanks of germany will sent it to ukraine. a. that's also the question what germany will do to get them as soon as possible. he said that he will try to find that balance on one side of getting those new weapon system and on the other side of supplying ukraine with weapons. he also mentioned a case and said it is not possible to tell ukraine that we, that germany will not supply them with weapons any more as it 1st needs to take care of their bonus ves duct. but he said that it is a problem that and we have seen for many, many years now with the set status of the bonus where that many equipment is still needed it for the armed forces. so it's a really, really important task for him. but as such as mentioned, he has been in office for a week and he wanted to give the so does the sense that he will give them everything that they need that the same time while supporting ukraine, also to defend itself against russia. debbie as benjamin our, as glover in alton. bravo, germany and cafe are reporting harris. another story is making headlines. 2

people have been killed and several entered in a life attack in northern germany. police a, the 2 dead are both teenagers aged $16.19. the incident took place on a train traveling between the cities of keel and hamburg. police have arrested the alleged attacker, a palestinian man who was recently released from prison. house, any and official say that at least 9 people have been killed during an israeli raid in the occupied west bank gunfire and explosions were heard coming from the janine refugee camp, which is a major stronghold for palestinian militant groups. the israeli military said that the forces had come under fire while attempting to arrest several members of the militant palestinian organisation islamic jihad. a deadly cold snap is sweeping across asia, causing record low temperatures and disruption. the freezing weather has effected

millions of people from japan and south korea to afghanistan, which is experiencing its coldest winter in 15 years. people in china's northernmost city more he and no strangers to the cold. the temperature here can stay below freezing for up to 8 months of the year. but this week things are especially chilly temperatures plunged to minus 53 degrees celsius. it's coldest day ever recorded. would you so northern china has been hit hard by the freezing front, affecting asia roads, a covered and snow rail tracks of frozen with thick ice jelly, bulldog through seizure co here and junk. a cycling isn't an option either. the cold sweep has caused sea ice and northeast and li alden bay to expand rapidly . it's not just china that's freezing. japan is also experiencing record low

temperatures. heavy snow is blanketing large parts of the country. with $93.00 seemed to meet its falling on the city of money were in just 24 hours in south korea, nearly $500.00 flights in and out of the resort island j. you were canceled on tuesday to, to the wither. meanwhile, and central asia, the weather is proving deeply in afghanistan, temperatures have dropped to minus $34.00 degrees in parts. and more than a 120 people are reported to have died. we are having so many problems with this cold weather. we have no call, no stove, and our children have no warm clothes. the cold is deepening, the humanitarian crisis, facing the country since the taliban took control after and winter makes everything a lot more difficult and we are very conscious of the season of the timing. and as

you say, we see some of the consequences in loss of life. this is within the context of 6000000 people. it's an astonishing number of people knocking on fallon's door. the bitter temperatures are plunging much of afghanistan, struggling population further into poverty. this year marks the harshest winter and a long time in large parts of asia and for the millions affected spring can't come soon enough. a frank smith is a freelance journalist based and sole and earlier he told me about how the severe weather is affecting the korean peninsula. we and temperatures down to minus 25, with wind chill down to minus 28. sometimes these, the stories can hit home. i live in a high rise building a newer building can finish just just a couple of years ago in my lobby there washrooms,

the pipes froze in those washrooms then burst with water and flooding a quite a large area of the lobby in then freezing, creating kind of an ice rink down there as your report mentioned on change, you island they got dumped with with buckets and buckets of snow had to had to cancel flights. those have been resume though air traffics been resumed. so they're bringing flights into in china and get po, airports around the capital, staying open for that, you know, really busy flight corridor, especially during this holiday season to get people back to work there about yeah, how long is it expected to last? well over the next couple of days it, it's gonna remain this cold through to saturday and then a warm up a bit might get another dump of precipitation on, on sunday, but it will warm up somewhat up in north korea. it's a different situation there. north ham, young and south ham young provinces,

those are provinces that border russia. they are threatened to experience this cold weather a bit more and it could be a bigger problem if you've ever seen a satellite image of, of the korean peninsula or the region at night. you know that electricity out of the capital pyongyang is, is somewhat rare. so there are concerns that we're going to see some, some problems there, especially considering north korea also has trouble in terms of, of food security and had some reports last year of people going missing and, and freezing in the cold weather there. sir. frank smith, freelance journalist reporting from sol are on this extreme weather that we are seeing where you are. thank you so much for joining us. some sports news now, and in the bonus like a dormant paid a visit to mines on wednesday. the hosts have struggled to make games this season,

but they had dorman deadlocked until the very last minute. that's when american geo ran out scored another winner to give them a to one victory. ah, don't them lined up in mind snowing. they had to attack the men in red without their best known defender. woke up when i met tumult was dropped. heading to the bench, wondering how his side would confront a long held weakness in defending sit paces without him. it took 2 minutes to get the answer. not will an early blow please. the manager jason lee squeezing his head are in at the neopost. mine said my the perfect stars that 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 both 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 it last time? g, a reiner with his 2nd game winning strike in just 5 days. dockman climbing the table once more and the young american is again, a heath at the international olympic committee has opened the way for russian and belly, mercy, and athletes to compete. and next year is paris olympics, the i o. c said that no athlete should be prevented from taking part because of their nationality and suggested that athletes could qualify for the games as neutral. many sports currently exclude russian and bella gross in athletes because of russia's invasion of ukraine. the ios, the statement has been criticized by ukrainian athletes, including olympic high jumper yarrow, slather ma hutcher chick who told

d w that russian athletes are used as propaganda by russian president vladimir putin. so you're watching the news up next. it is conflict on with this thing. they do and how russians, sportsman, if you, so my be in to start with a big stadium and russian sportsman. and with that now you're up to date on the w is. thank you so much for watching. taking with

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