ah but ah ah, this is dw news lie from berlin, pakistan's former president prevent sharice is dead after a long illness. the former for store general sees power in a bloodless food. he tried to usher in socially liberal values to a markedly conservative country and survived assassination. and also on the program

after tracking it for days drifting high over the us fighter jet, shoot down a suspected chinese bible. the balloon is triggered a diplomatic storm. beijing warns there may be repercussions and ukrainian president zelinski warned that russia is growing more and more troops that ukraine is done. yes. region. making a tougher for defenders to hold the line. ah . michael ok. welcome. prevents lashara. the former president of pakistan has died. jenoma sheriff succumb to a long illness in a hospital in dubai. he was 79 shower, became president, and after military crew in 1999, he dodged 3 assassination attempts before leaving office in 2008. he later

attempted a political comeback, but instead was presented with criminal charges and had since been living in exile . for more on this, i'm joined by d. w reported venetian java, it vanish a complicated question for sure, but what is more sharps legacy in pakistan? michael, in the initial years of his leadership, he was a popular figure, especially because under his leadership, aka fansub, idiots of economic growth. but he also remains an extremely controversial figure in buckets on history, especially after 911 when the u. s. in weighted afghanistan, bach this on offered unwavering support at the u. s. and its fight against al qaeda and the taliban were shut off, became one of the most important ally of the u. s. in this war and to and during this time, a lot of military intelligence was shared, a lot of military assistance came to pakistan, and dought out militants,

pakistan were shut off, carried out military operations. ah, for the 1st time the tribal areas of focus on bordering afghanistan, douglas, the diamond buck is an also a very aggressive and ready, unpopular. don't campy us john gun been in that region. and that caused a lot of resistance movement in pakistan and to crush one of the dispute resistance movement, which had launched a military operation against a moth in the summer. but and dark lead to creation of one of the most dangerous militant organization that boxes and faces. bacchus, any taliban or t t p that had that has since skilled thousands of bikers and and um, and he also feared that the judicially would try to block his ruling the country. and to crush that movement, he had moved the chief justice of the country in 2007, and that led to must, on demonstrations in the country. eventually, previous my shut off, i'm embossed emergency,

the country abrogated the constitution. in november 2007, he remains said that he, he leaves of eddie complicated and difficult legacy left a mark on the country reminders why he left the country to live in exile. so in 2008, pakistan had its 1st democratic elections in the earth. and by that time we should have had lost a lot of domestic support, so hit his party completely lost the elections and the new parliament taking to impeach him and, and he feared for his life and impeachment. and he fled to london. later he did tried to come back to the country, but he was facing treason charges for imposing emergency and abrogating the constitution, and he was disqualified from running the election ever since then. he has been living in exile in london and debbie, finished job and many, many sanks, indeed the united states has

shot down the chinese balloon that's been flying high over the u. s. for the last several days, creating a diplomatic and political storm. the pentagon says it was a platform for espionage. china now warns there may be repercussions over the downing of what it in chess was nothing more than a civilian weather balloon blown off course. after floating across the us for days, the suspect to chinese spy balloon has been shot down. off the coast of south carolina . several air pulse was shut and as space closed, before the balloon was brought down by military fight to jets. landing 11 kilometers of the us mainland u. s. president joe biden said he all did the balloon to be down as soon as it could be done so safely. on wednesday when i was break down, the blue order of the pentagon was sure to down one v. as soon as possible,

i decided without doing damage than the one on the ground. the successor took it down and i want to compliment or didn't want more report on her. so later, china's ministry of foreign affairs condemned the shooting down of the balloon. let it maintain that he was a civilian as ship. i thought you beijing previously said it regretted his entrees into us. asked bass. oh, good afternoon. good us secretary of state wide, antony blinker. duncan cancelled a trip to china. following is discovery. it's very, the balloon may be neutralized, but the fall out to thir, the soured already brought diplomatic relations between china and the united states . i spoke earlier with the w east asia correspondent, william young in taipei and asked about china's reaction to having its balloon shot down. so the chinese condemned the shot down of the balloon as an over re

action of the from the united states as they continue to stick to the line that it is merely a civilian balloon. that is our scientific nature. and i think this really just shows that both sides are not backing down because they are required by domestic expectations to maintain and operate from a position of strength rather than showing any weakness. so following the initial reaction that they said they regret the balloon have fly into the u. s. airspace. they are now sticking to their original stance and their rhetoric, and they are really adopting a very tough stance and not trying to show any sign of weakness. as you well know, china says it may take further actions as they put it. what might those actions be? i think that we really depend on the ongoing investigation that the u. s. congress had already ordered,

and also the findings that are going to come out of the united states. and as we know, the inside the united states, the domestic rhetoric and the atmosphere right now is being very critical of the government handling of a. and also there's a lot of skepticism of the purpose of this bill. and so, as we know more from what the united states findings will be, i think paging is going to calculate about what are the proper measures for them to ensure that they don't show any sign of weakness. and then at the same time, they're not backing down from their original stance. from your perspective, they're in asia. how will this affect the already delicate relationship between the us and china? i think this is really a big blow to the efforts that we're leading up to blink and visit as we know over the last few months both sides are trying to negotiate an open communication. even though blink and one of the top chinese diplomats continue to have dialogue and call over this incident. but it is basically putting all the efforts over the since

last november back to point ground 0. and then it's going to take a lot for them to restart any kind of a dialogue and possible visit in the following month. many thanks, william. that was william young in, ty pay. thank you. ukraine's president, a lot of his zalinski says, the situation in the eastern province of john yet is critical. keith says he had fought off a new russian assault on the city of buck wood on saturday. the fiercest fighting of the war is concentrated on the eastern front. on the front line in ukraine's east, less than a kilometer away from russia's border. ukraine's territorial defense unit is trying to hold the line. i knew, but they are not. they were under constant shedding. i have just been told that a drone is in the air alarm that by the russians are conducting recognizance flight as well. up with it. usually the shutting starts an hour later. it's dangerous for

we can only stay out for a bit. and then it's back to the bunker creek, there were some of which of the sort of thing like that. he was little sure of the battlefield isn't cut short if by shelling the bumper before him. the unit shelters under ground waiting for the artillery fire to subside. e or and the other men here are civilians. although they volunteered to fight on the front lines in the yard, but they say they don't have the right equipment to fight the russians ludy. what's your funny mom november over? oh no, we don't have enough weapons here. you buy people. so to live race from the west would help as a lot going on. we need tanks mortars, an artillery to defend ourselves, will not be lydia, look a photo multiple garcia, but on that for them for, for now, the unit relies on the labyrinth of trenches for protection and surveillance

of the building. with what, what would move the we can watch them from here. what are you at the store? ah, if we see something, we foreign them fire power using what could be a museum artifact, a soviet era machine gun the command center is in the basement of an administrative building. this is where the unit pushed back russian forces in september even coordinates or just him or not. if you have positions everywhere and we're always changing locations. oh, okay. the russians can locate those in the attack. it's already happened even here to the principal. the command station is decorated with weapons and uniforms, left behind by the enemy. next door is the russian tank that has been seized and repaired. ah,

the ukrainian troops want to use it on the battlefield as they brace for what they believe is an imminent spring offensive. a brief look now at some of the other stories around the world. german chancellor, all of shawls has told germany's build newspaper that ukraine agrees. weapons supplied by the west won't be used to attack russian territory. sholtes also dismissed. russian president vladimir putin equating this week of german tanks being sent to ukraine with nazi germany. attack on the soviet union. thousands attended a mass held by pope frances on sunday, in a stadium in juba, the capital of south sudan. the pontiff has use his visit to urge rival factions to make peace. south sudan is the final stage of the pope's trip that included the

democratic republic of congo anti government. protestors have clash with police and lima, the capital of peru after parliament rejected a proposal to bring forward elections. since early december, thousands of demonstrators across the country have been demanding the resignation of president dina blew up. after her popular predecessor pedro castillo was impeached and arrested for trying to dissolve. congress. saturday was an emotional day in the buddhist. legal for darkman striker, sebastian. ha. he scored his 1st goal for the club since being diagnosed with cancer in july. that goal helped wrap up a big win over rivals fryeburg and placed ortman hot on the heels of the leagues top to clutch. dorman strike a sebastian a layer was making his 1st league start at home. since treatment for testicular cancer, dormant marked willed canaday by redesigning their centre circle urging men to

check for lumps. fryeburg killian, cynthia, did his teammates no favors by being sent off. after to 17 minutes, dorman, defend a nickel shot back as donald at the back at times. the season in front of go though he poses a threat and gave you said the lead from the titus of angles. but fryeburg later exposed his defensive frailties. lucas hurley equalizing after the ball, had rebounded off, slaughter beck, and plenty to think about at the break. luckily for him carrying a yay me, scott. his 2nd at the league season and 2nd into games. early in the 2nd half. it was quite a celebration to dobbins next goal, had fans in raptures and making it 3 won. this was his 1st goal having been diagnosed in july, shortly after signing for the club. his joy was there for all to see his boots

told the own story. julian blunt added an impressive force and g irena, a 5th but the day belonged to alas, as dorman, boosted dead title hopes. that is you news as our up next our tech series sharing living in the digital age. i'm michael oke, who, in berlin. i'll be back at the top of the hour with another use bulletin from the teeth. thanks for watching people in trucks injured when trying to flee the city center. more and more refugees are being turned away and the water families, planes on attacking syrian to these correct only.