ah ah ah ah, this is dw news lie from berlin, russia tax ukraine as the west promises more military support. ukrainians take a bomb shelter take to bomb shelters. amid a barrage of missile and drone attacks, the strikes come a day after germany and the u. s. pledge to spend tanks to ukraine, also coming up

a deadly cold snap sweeping across asia from afghanistan to japan, sub 0 temperatures that heavy snow are causing chaos for millions and in the bone to sleep for paul dorman, to prove rakes the deadlock at the last minute to come away with 3 crucial points in their match against mine. ah, i'm sarah kelly. welcome to the program. at least one person has been tailed, and others are injured after russian forces fired more than 30 missiles, had several targets across ukraine. officials told residents to remain in shelters 15 of the drones were down around the capital, keep. 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 tags with berlin. adding its aim was to have the 1st company in ukraine by the end of march. after days of diplomatic wrangling to big announcements from either side of the atlantic to day to day, i'm announcing the united states will be sending 31 abram tags to ukraine. the equivalent of one new crowning battalion surgery austin has recommended to step. because on hash new crimes capacity and finished her turn achieve his strategic objectives. the u. s. president statement came just hours after germany announced it would deliver 14 of its leopard to battle tanks to ukraine. does this, does a given us, this is the result of renewed and intense consultations with our allies and international partners, as i would like to underline without 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 close corporation on these issues, international pressure had been growing and germany to agree to send le, to tangs to ukraine, or to at least lift an export ban on the jam and may tanks. so other countries could supply them that last week, meeting of defense leaders from more than 50 countries at ramstein air base and germany failed to produce any agreements, chance loan of shots 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 abrams are what ukrainian president followed. amir zalinski 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. always 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. as ask that zalinski also stressed that speed as now key. while the 1st leopard tangs could arrive in ukraine in the next 2 to 3 months, the white house has already said that it will likely be many more months before its abrams tanks will arrive at the front end. earlier i spoke with correspondent mathias ballinger about the new missile attacks on ukraine this morning. yeah, it 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, asa, what is your, are there have been explosions in these 3 cities are in odessa? we're 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 shot down upon entering into the air space above the city. and it fell on to a building um, a 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 messiahs flying on to keith 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 an that we had the announcement of the last and germany sending tank. steve gray 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's 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 not, not really any details known and like, is it kind of in the nature of things are that are 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 literature. my try 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 mast deployments necessary in belarus 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. i am 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. and they could have achieved much more. we will see, of course, whether this is true after the tags arrive and we don't really know about the timeline, whether that will he not have enough of them. but one expectation is that the next target that ukraine might attempt at would be in the south in his abode,

easier reason that would be a very valuable area for ukraine to make gains because that's the connect in between crimea and that her son all bliss 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 key. thank you. now the additional weapons for ukraine could play a vital role in keith's efforts to repel the russian invasion, but russia is showing no sign of back down. analysts say that it might be laying the groundwork for a new offensive in the spring. here is a look at some of the weapon tre. russia 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 kia 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 or x have documented that russia has lost at least 69 aircraft, 560 artillery pieces, and 1600 tanks. the u. s. military however, claims that russia may have lost as much as half of its tanks. so far, some analysts point to russia's use in ukraine of the t $62.00 tank as evidence that it's armory is in dire straits. the t $62.00 is a relic,

introduced while the berlin wall was under construction. this photo, as from a russian museum of military history, ukraine's government has also claimed that moscow will eventually run out of long range missiles. seeing russian factories can not replenish the stockpiles. yet their estimates from november were proven too 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, hope gra, syrup and all this can only inspire confidence that victory will be ours. for ukraine's part with so many of its factories and depots, destroyed its best chance to counter russia's military might, is to keep supplies flowing from its international partners. and with russia

reportedly preparing for a spring offensive. i asked 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 we got a further mobilization going on now, much of that is poorly trained in a pull morale on this severely lacking in advanced equipment of the type that ukraine's 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 stalls of warfare. so what russia is trying to do is generate a huge army,

as we said poorly trained and they were fighting attrition, no trench style, you know, martin, blood and guts type of war fact. where's ukraine has already demonstrated its ability to conduct maneuver warfare, so destroying the russian supply lines nipping around 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 punch 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 over 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 tree? 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 train ukrainians on the phone, you know, 6 months training course or whatever. what are the things that need to be done? the secret equipment that the west has in these times needs to be stripped out for

they go to the crane, then the ukrainians need to be trained on them in some poland you can probably do that in a couple of weeks. and then the whole lot, the cruise and the tanks and the logistics pipeline leads me 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, at, you know, blocks of flats or whatever in retaliation. that's really impotence 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 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 conflict to widen, into a se, poland, which is covered by the night article 5 security guarantee drugs in america? we have the western states. absolutely not. it russia is absolutely very k as nice as 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 tried. the reason they towed off recently is because the west cool that bluff and said, you don't want to use nuclear. the cold war, the rule still exist, meach issue destruction. so 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 in that perspective. thank. and here are some other stories making headlines. thousands of australians have marked their country's national day with rallies in support of indigenous rights. large crowds marched through the centre of sydney to protest the holiday which marks the arrival of european settlers at sidney harbor. the australian government is planning a referendum on recognizing indigenous people in the constitution. later this year . 2 people have been killed and several injured in a knife attack in northern germany. police say that the 2 dead are both teenagers aged $16.19. the incident took place on a train travelling between the cities of chil and hamper police, have a rest of the alleged attacker, a palestinian man who was recently released from prison. alice tinney, an official say that at least 9 people have been killed during an israeli raid and

the occupied westbank. gunfire and explosions were heard coming from the jeanine refugee camp, which is a major stronghold for palestinian militant groups. the israeli military says that forces had come under fire while attempting to arrest several members of the militant palestinian organisation, islam with jihad a deadly cold snap is sweeping across asia, causing record low temperatures and disruption. the freezing weather has affected millions of people from japan and south korea to afghanistan, which is experiencing. it's cold this 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 chile, temperatures plunged to minus 53 degrees celsius. it's colder, stay ever recorded with yet. so northern china has been hit hard by the freezing

front, affecting asia roads, a covered and snow rail tracks, a frozen with thick ice jelly. bought dogs. yeah, go here and junk. a cycling isn't an option either. the cold sweep has caused sea ice and northeastern 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 seem to meters falling on the city of money. we're in just 24 hours in south korea, nearly $500.00 flights in and out of the resort island jazz. you were cancelled on tuesday to to the wither. meanwhile, and central asia, the wither 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. he, after winter makes everything a lot more difficult and we're very conscious of the season of the timing. and as you say, we see some of the consequences, loss of life. this is really the context of 6000000 people. it's an astonishing number of people. knock it on famines door, the better temperatures, the plunging match of afghanistan, struggling population further into poverty. this year marks the hash us winter in a long time and large parts of asia and for the millions affected spring can't come soon enough. and frank smith as

a freelance journalist based and sole he told me more about how this severe weather is affecting the south korean capital where we and temperatures down to minus 25 with wind chill down to minus 28. but sometimes these, these 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 flooding a quite a large area of the lobby. and 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 traffic's been resumed, so they're bringing flights into in sean and get po, airports around the capital, staying open for that, you know, really busy flight quarter,

especially during this holiday season to get people back to work. so what 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 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 in freezing in the cold weather there. sir. frank smith, freelance journalist reporting from soul on, on this extreme weather that we are seeing where you are. thank you so much for joining us. imagine buying medicine for your sick child only to have that treatment cause deadly harm. that is what i believe to have killed some 200 children in indonesia. and angry and grieving, parents are demanding to know how tainted cough syrup made its way into the supply chain. they have filed a class action lawsuit against the government and pharmaceutical companies. in the hopes of securing justice city. so hardy out he looks at pictures of her family in happy times when her son, whom apple baccha was still alive. in september last year, the 2 year old got ill with a fever and a cold. c t gave her some, some cough medicine. then everything happened really fast. that yet i was shocked

that now i couldn't believe it. it was like a dream at me and it all happened so quickly. i'm really from the 1st day when he fell sick, until the day he died about me, it was so fast, only 2 weeks. there was no information about this illness. we kept asking what caused this, and what did i do wrong? amazingly who mom died of kidney failure up being rushed from a local clinic to the emergency ward of a hospital in jakarta, police took samples of the medicine city, had given him, and found it contained to toxic substances commonly used an anti freeze products around $200.00 indonesian children have died from tainted cough medicine since august last year. almost all of them under the age of 5 city and more than 20 other families of now sued the health and finance ministries, indonesia drug regulator, and a number of pharmaceutical companies for their children's deaths. former data,

i hope those who have done bad things and that will get punished, might then have to pay for what they did. i also hope the system improves. so something like this happens again. they can handle it more quickly, but will say and won't be so clueless. says he has to stay strong. she still has a daughter to look after. together they go and visit him, was grave. his sister singing him a song on what would have been his 3rd birthday. so now we're gonna change paste a little bit and then we're gonna turn to some sports news. and in the bonus like a dormant payday as a to mines on wednesday, the host have struggled to make gains the season. but they had dorman deadlocked until the very last minute. that was when american gio rayna scored another winner to give them a to one victory. ah, don't been lined up in mind snowing,

they had to attack them in and read without their 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 blow pleased the manager jason lea squeezing his head are in at the neopost. mine said may the perfect start, but 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 fencin, huffed and puffed pleading for a mighty hero. dormant brought one of the bench sebastian hela 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, that his the international olympic committee has opened the way for russian and belly, mercy, and athletes to compete at next year is paris olympics, the i r. 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 neutrals. many sports currently food, russian and belly, mercy, and athletes because of russia's invasion of ukraine. the io sees statement has been criticized by ukrainian athletes, including olympic high jumper yarrow, slather ma, who judge. she told d w that russian athletes are being used as propaganda by the russian president. lie reputed really, the thing said is a doin holl. russians are sportsman. if you so my be in the start man said

a big stadium and russian sportsman support their present. and so of course, ukrainian as listened, ukrainian sportsman will do everything. is it possible set up? bella lewis and russian athletes and sportsmen didn't come to international because hiroshi stutter estate. you're watching d, w, it is coming up after a short break. it is conflict. so here on dw news, who speaks with a belly mercy, an opposition politician and journalist. so do you stay with us if you can for that? i'm sarah kelly and berlin. thank you for watching. pick up with

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