ah, was there another symbolic meaning to this beautiful painting that perhaps we just don't understand? the switch for answers. stuart february 10th on d. w. ah. ah. this is dw news live from berlin, master attack to ukraine as the west promises more military support. ukrainians take to bomb shelters, amid a barrage of miss ireland drone attacks, the strikes come a day after germany and the u. s. played the sin tanks to ukraine, also on the program. as rutter attacks, 4th force,

a 1000 to take cover in the ukrainian capital will hear from peeves mer vitale. cliff kill that. how people day, a coping and a bit of cold wave tightens its grip on afghanistan. taliban officials say 160 people are dead as millions faced freezing temperatures and dwindling food supplies . ah m. anthony howard walk into the program. at least one person has been killed and many others injured. after russian forces fired more than 30 missiles, several targets across ukraine. officials told residents to remain in shelters. 15 of the drones were down to round the capitol keep the mare confirmed a huge explosions. now the attacks come on a day after germany and the united states announced plans to supply ukraine with

modern battle tanks with berlin, adding its aim was to have the 1st company in decline by the end of the month. the additional weapons, the ukraine could play a vital role in keeps efforts to repel the russian invasion. but russia is sewing no sign of bray backing down rather and le sigh. it's laying the groundwork for a new offensive in spring is a look now at some of the weaponry 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, oregon, 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,

saying russian factories can not replenish the stockpiles. yet their estimates from november were proven too optimistic when russia stepped up. it's 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. hooton's recently visited in arms manufacturer praising the workers, the hooker of certain 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 russia's military might, is to keep supplies flowing from its international partners. american diplomat, william courtney is a former ambassador and an adjunct senior fellow at the rand corporation thinktank . i asked him earlier, how strong the russian military remains nearly a year after the start of its invasion. of the russian military is probably only

a fraction of what strength had had at the beginning. because so many of its top soldiers were killed. m a failed invasion attempt. last february, march. those folks were going after care, for example, the capital harkins, both of which the russian forces failed to cease. so now russia's relying on less are capable forces at russia is reportedly talking about, mobilizing another $500000.00 soldiers. how far do you think these new tank commitments from the west can go toward countering any fresh russian offensive? the west will be sure that ukraine retains a qualitative edge, but russia is likely to have a quantitative edge if it succeeds in mobilizing so many more soldiers,

the soldiers will be less well equipped, less well trained, but there will be a large number of them. so there will be an offsetting capability there. thus far, though, the 1st model is ation was so popular in russia. but one wonders whether a criminal will undertake a mother mobilization of that scale. and if it does, whether there could be risk to cremeans role is to courtney. we hear a lot that any problem the russian military has, the generals will thrive more and more soldiers at that problem. is that a reasonable assessment? that was his strategy in world war 2, for example, in the soviets, last 500000 troops and the battle of berlin at the end of the war, for example. so russia is likely to continue to that strategy, except that there's been more of freedom. there wasn't a period now and so it's possible that public on rest could serge, if more of these folks are recruited into an army and wish that i've been trained

well and not being a quick well buster is called the western tanks, a blatant provocation. what sort of retaliation if any, do you think can be expected? i don't think of any serious retaliation in the past when russia has suffered setbacks, whether failure to take care of filling our case. you finance sank the flagship of russian black fleet. the credit in seized the rest of park, if a blast recently, each time, there really hasn't been a blow back. now, when your cranium attack the current bridge going from south of the russia to crimea. the russians lost more attacks on civilian infrastructure, but that's a sign, a weakness. in fact, the attacks today, another signed a week. if you want to gain military advantage, your military targets will lease better tanks,

really pose such a problem for russia, where they've elicited such a strong reaction from moscow, but will really be such a problem for russia on the battlefield to counter this bitter and new equipment from from the west that these tanks are more capable, they can shoot a longer ranges than the russian tanks. they can shoot when they're moving as well and they can shoot accurately so they will be capable. but the ukrainians also have a lot of former soviet tanks, some of which, many of which were taken from russia as its forces surrendered. so a mix of the modern western text. the focus over text should give your create a potent force or counter offensive operation that requests combine dorms, infantry or artillery armor, and a be asian. that's what the west us now training your great in forces to do in

germany. now that these cards are on the table finally, do you see a risk that this conflict could escalate to directly involve nicer members? o, thus far, russia has been very careful not to start targets in your crime that are on the border where major, well are grant i was a border of for about 2 hours. so let's kind of see just a burglar alarm knows where of provoking motor william courtney. thank you very much, senior fellow at the rand corporation. thanks your time. you're quite welcome. now let's take a look now at some of the other stories making headlines. they sell turkish foreign minister min flute chevy show lou has accused a sweden of bank complicit in, quote, height and racist crime filing to prevent an ad. he's land protest and still come up on the weekend. he said, holding talks with sweden, o finland, about a bit to join. nato was currently meaningless. the nordic countries require turkeys

approval to join the alliance. i was standing an official site, at least 9 people have been killed during and is ready, right in the occupied west bank. john fi and explosions were heard coming from the janine refugee camp, which is a major stronghold for palestinian militant groups. israeli military said that forces had come on the firewall, attempting to arrest several members of the militant palestinian organisation islamic jihad. 2 people have been killed and several injured in the night attack in northern germany. they say the 2 data, both teenagers aged 16 and 19 incident took place on a train traveling between the cities of keel and humble police. have arrested the alleged attack. i have a skinny and men it was recently released from prison. thousands of australians have backed the country's national day with rallies in support of indigenous rights . large crowns marched through the center of sydney to protest the holiday which

marks the arrival of european settlers at city harbor. the spreading government is planning a referendum on recognizing indigenous people in the constitution. later this year, social media john meta says it will restore the facebook and instagram accounts of former u. s. president donald trump, after a 2 year suspension. the company says the ban will be lifted in the coming weeks. trump was suspended from the platforms after the january, 6, rice, a taliban officials in afghanistan, se extreme cold. this winter is killed at least 160 people. the countries in the midst of its worst cold snap and at least a decade, with temperatures plunging below minus 30 degrees celsius. earlier this month, dwindling humanitarian aid is making the impact of the frigid temperatures. even worse with it for poodle window. for this, my daughter,

shania is grieving the loss of her 2 children who couldn't survive the freezing temperature sister opened fire the only way for her to keep her other children warm and safe. oh yes, the, the weather is really cold on about 2 months ago. i lost 2 of my children because of the colds. we don't have any way of heating inside the room with when we bake bread. we also warm ourselves by sitting here, though that is another afghans with me could resource. it had been hit big temperatures as low as minus 34 degrees celsius. hunger is prevalent, and harsh temperatures are making life harder. snow has been bad news for this fruit filler. in copper, in one of them. when i came outside my home, the kids were cheering saying it had snowed. but then i had to tell them that since it snowed to day, they'd be going hungry. well,

they all went quiet and sad and said nothing because they understood that their mother wouldn't work to day and they would be left without food. but all of that was love the service. so that if i thought is another room with more than 20000000 people in the war torn country need food, assistance, operations of many eat organizations have been suspended due to the ban on berman him and it didn't book us by the taliban. dis is jeopardizing the life of millions, my message through all the taliban line ministries, all of relevance to all our operations across with holland, skype you, my production is if you can't help us, rescind the bud, give us the exemptions to allow women to operate with no help but i think i've gone like shasta and her children feel they have been left on. they don't want to fight for their survivor. or earlier journalist alley,

the tiffy and cobble told us more about the effects of the deadly cold in afghanistan. ah, we know that more dying were becoming sick that people are having issues. you know, as your radio package said, that the biggest issue for people is finding a way to keep warm, you know, earlier in the winter, the taller bond try to subsidize the cost of coal in kabul to sort of help people keep warm as prices have gone up because of different financial issues. but the reality is that it's getting colder and colder every day. that electricity is sparse because back some sort of back and forth with providing electricity to the country. and also because of the aid cut backs, the sanctions, the banking restrictions which have led you know, businesses to flee, which have led, you know, investors to be wary of investing. and i've, honest on, you know, something like 700000 people have lost their jobs. so they're just less and less

money for people to do basic things like find ways to keep their houses warm in terms of solutions. ali, how is the taliban responded to the emergency? they have said that they have worked with the world health organization in the northeast, in province above sean, where there's this weird outbreak of, of a disease coming about. they have said that they've worked with other organizations and as i said like, you know, providing subsidized would and as a subsidized coal and things like that. but in reality, you know, their government is under sanctions. there are much money. they're not the most, they're not the brightest government. you know, they're not the most adapt. you know, they're much more known for taking lives than giving life then, you know, helping save lives. so they're not really necessarily that capable of doing very much on their own. and you know, we've seen this throughout different humanitarian disasters in the country over the

last year and a half where they've really relied on foreign organizations. but of course, with the ban on women, not doing health related work for and g. o is that really impacts how much they can reach people in the country? couple based journalists, lila 2, thanks so much for time. we're tony to our top story now and the latest missile attack by russia on you credit. earlier i spoke to keith smith for tally clinico and asked him how bad the russian attacks on his city. a last name was not these it night because the russian sand can make as a drawn to hometown to rain st. a system so therefore, so we should actually know all drones and we have a dentist in our hometown and today morning. then next at tech was reg, as

a day it's actually was 34 hours before span underground in some way in shelters. and, and also, thanks to, i mean, it forces grady should almost ever, i guess, wish russian san to the point of the strikes is to break the cranium. people in the middle of winter, more tax on infrastructure today. i ask you, are the russians getting any closer to weakening ukrainians? resolve the russians? try to destroy all infrastructure right now is snowing outside temperature is pretty called, and the target to target a critical infrastructure. the russian forces try to freezing a hometown. try to make

a huge damage. you sit and destroy normal life ought to be there and to make a house to try to bring the depressive mood to every one to everyone, our citizens. and instead them, the people were angry and read it to 5. listen the, i you like great saying the better was out, let them one of them was russians. and we're still fighting for how and dependency for our freedom. and that's why the russians, that's why we have a lot of stuff on the scores and we are thank you. 0, one more time for support on friends to android system to no more than defense weapons . it's very helpful to you. great to our forces and everywhere,

i guess it was shut down. and speaking of that support, the tech comes the day after germany in the us. and now they would think high tech battle tanks to ukraine. russia called the decision extremely dangerous warning. it would take this conflict to a, quote, new level of confrontation. what's your reaction? russians understand just the strong and bo position that we are russians. yes, of course, they were unhappy with the weapons, was it tanks and it's been just for russian forces. we defend our homeland, we want to keep house area russian soldiers. why we fighting for i was not do integrity. and so, yes,

of course russians were very nervous about that. but they starting to war and for and back from modern weapons. they break from that a you worried these tanks a coming to light that the russian forces are now dug into their positions to an extent that they will be too hard to move. yes, of course. so we're talking about support pretty long time. and actually i was where i had just came back from divorce, and i don't the right now i don't need to explain to the decision making too many. how wor, sedation? it's not the was general side. is there a reason for the russian forces? and right now actually, and one of the walk you through face of this invasion of this war

and where died, 10001000 city has destroyed, which is a drama for millions of people in the brain. and yes, of course, it's very important to know if the bottle is very important, the wheel to wheel is wearing what the spirit, but there's also very important weapons and we defend right now, our homes, our country, and leave forget, we defend not just our homes, we defend also of the same wireless european, modern democratic waters. and we defend the european. gus, i'm want to sure the russians go so far as are we allowed to go and we listen. we listen was from, from moscow they took a ball and they talking about the countries and put him present himself as

a freshman class. they want to rebuild the russian class, and i want to repeat, well, we don't want back to us out. we don't want to be part of rushing black, our goal to be the part of european family as democratic, more than country. and that's the case. you no doubt my to jen, the chancellor. all that. so there was a lot of criticism in the past weeks here in germany and around the world of miss the shelter handling of the tank deliveries. many saw him dithering to hesitant and to slow. do you agree with that criticism or do you sympathize with his position? i like his german gerald and his group. i was good. by the way, we're a bullet guster. take a decision to do lyric thanks and we want to say thank you so much. yes, of course,

a lot of criticism, it's too slow much to slow. and so we need to where we pay for our dependency right now. we see a and that's why we need to go home with us. we can do it much this week, not 11 months since russia launched its war on ukraine. of all that started with the attempt to seize keith nearly a year like your city and your country is still standing. much of it left in ruins . what are your thoughts when you think back to that day, february the 24th 2022. and where do you see ukraine going from here? and we actually receive a lot of information from the russian set back to innovation. but we actually can

relies to save more than one of the middle of europe. there were some starting to watch actually. yeah we, everybody was shocked and many expert in the world give us just a couple of days, a couple of weeks. and when we bring us was we actually shopped, hold with our performance, how to defend our homeland and right now, all ready, one year we defending against successful defending our homes, our country's from russian, from russian army was from the sermon and the address of the great spirit, and we'll to wind gusts. we defend our feminist children, and we're ready to die for our future and to rational fighting right now for the money. and we went to way to pretty well, and we spend a lot of time to get to take soup or strong old countries. walton

doing great miss. we defending, not just our homes, but if any, also european countries and russians broke all into nationals. and actually yeah, right now they are everyone in the world understand what was going on is who the biggest mistake to seem to walk away from us. you know, our way there were some way for far away from your home. your brain is one of the largest country in europe and it's one's los country, nice. the beauty and the because on stability in ukraine can bring instability, whole regions. and that was life important to, to whole europe, to bring bees back to your, to europe. bring peace back to you. great life,

important and also is this war can past in the world, because please don't forget, we have 5 new book lands. and one of the biggest in europeans, abrasion was eve will be explosiveness, ruby touched air, we no human in our planet. and that's why it's very important to be brought active to do it. everything is possible to stop this war and it's we fighting for that and we're thankful for a while for support. your grade is less important, not for us is also very important to everyone in one wall long war. we need a piece tally, clinical man of a city of keith. thank you so much for your time today and stuff. thank.

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