ah, would you know how to operate? one of these now, no reason to feel bad instruction on a leper to tank usually takes trained military personnel months. this week, ukrainian soldiers, many of whom had never even held a gun before russia's invasion a year ago, started their crash course on the heavy weaponry pledged by the west. they only have a couple of weeks to get the hang of it as a feared russian offensive may be imminent. we're already underway. the tanks haven't yet arrived at the front lines, but nato is already weighing. it's next steps at a meeting in brussels. the alliance is defense. ministers are discussing more military aid, including fighter jets, to beef up ukraine's defense capabilities. because they are convinced the kremlin is only preparing for further escalation on nichol further chamberlain and this is the day ah,

nato and his scholarship has never been drawn and russian is now global thrive. on receive an old song spoke. the person is prepaid for peace and the world remains inspired by ukrainian bravery and brazilian. we don't need to motivate the soldiers . it's all. in fact, we have to hold them back a bit and still betting that it can wait us out. and they are paying an enormous price on the battlefield. we heard that these modern weapons will help them strike back against russia. stronger than before, in short, russia has lost. ah, also on the day check, football or jacobi danco comes out as gay. europe's 1st active top tier player to open up about is homosexuality, ubs to pave the way or a more inclusive court. like everybody else. i also want to live my life in freedom

with fierce bridge a while and over law. i'm almost social and i no longer wants to hide myself the welcome to the show. for months there had been speculation about russia preparing a fresh offensive an eastern ukraine. now it seems like the renewed onslaught is already underway. as green faces intensified attacks, its allies are meeting again to coordinate further support for keith. nato members and other allies of ukraine are gathered and brussels for talks and providing more weapons to the war torn country. at the moment, ukraine is on the back foot on parts of the eastern front, at least with russia, claiming success around the city of. but most of the experts say a russian victory in buffalo would not have a strategic impact on the war. keith has fought tooth and nail to keep it. the

battle for the city has become an example of why ukraine means newer, better weapons techs are among the weapons. keep campaign for most heavily. on tuesday, norway pledged another h, adding to dozens, already pledged by the west. of the conflict approaches would may well become a critical phase of the war. those tanks are getting closer to making an appearance on the battlefield. it will be used alexandra for non reports from poland where ukrainians are training on the german, made leper to leverage to tanks in action showing what they are capable of at a military site. in western poland, the 1st ukrainian soldiers have started to train here. excess of shadowed sky is one of their instructors. she's only as her 2. we don't need to motivate the soldiers at all. in fact, we have to hold them back a bit to let them learn a bit by bit i'm or budget before they are highly motivated,

young and want to learn everything. what needed to operate or the tanks, the my grandpa genie much deviated. normally the training takes 2 months, but the instructors here say they can cut it in half. the polish government has been one of the staunchest supporters of ukraine calling time and again for deliveries of more advanced weapons. president, angie, duda himself has come from war. so to visit the training center. bah, but we'll just, we hope that these modern weapons will help them strike back against russia. stronger than before they both considered one of the best tanks in the west arsenal . the leopard too, is also one of the most widely used that makes in such a good fit for key if expert, se tanks and known wouldn't be a game change on the battlefield. but they could help ukraine to go on the offensive again. only days ago, major that him hot dog and his tank brigade were fighting on the front lines indent,

donnette screeching. now they are here in poland regular yet are girls amuse sure? i think these tanks will be a great helicopter and great support for our army. was it would at the game, were it 3 manion luxury army? when we learn how to operate them, is that all and begin using them in battle, but immune them are your we home. this will have a big will hang over her. yet we should have with the dues of really care factory. still. ukraine has been waiting for western tanks for months now. the 1st ones are expected to arrive on the front lines at the end of march. of more on a military situation. let's bring and justin chrome. he's a military analyst and ceo of the intelligence consultancy sibley. welcome to the devil you. i'd like to talk about the tanks heading for ukraine in a minute. but 1st, what is your understanding of the situation in and around tonight? obviously that the city is increasingly coming on the pressure of why we've been

saying that a weeks, if not months, the russians oversee, have launched their overall offensive. it's kind of slow, but steady, that progress. it's slow, but they are closing on that city and they've been taking villages north and south of it. it's not fully cut off, but oversee that carrying on, focusing on the area and the aim throughout. i think it's been to try and get ukraine to bring more reserves into the fight around back in as much as that town has any strategic value that you, anything the russians committee do is bring the ukrainians in trying cause and casualties. but as we've seen, ukraine's not had to commit all its reserves. they have people training in poland, bad people training in the u. k. still. so the russians haven't succeeded in the objective of stopping the crane army from being able to generate horses. so nonetheless, while they might take the city, they probably failed and then main objective is supposed to destroy the ukrainians

and delete combat power from them. if that area and exception are ukrainian forces on the back foot across the eastern front at this point. to varying degrees of on the back. so i think that's it's a negative way of putting was a slow loss of ground. the ukraine is losing ground and then making the russians pay for the territory that taking that's very much you credit and strategy at this point. i think it's made the right and lead out for every mile they take hope to absorb this russian offensive limit the losses and territory made but the rail a match by both sides. this point is try me write down what their advisory has. they want to cause casualties on each other to a high extent. they want to destroy me equipment on both sides. the aim really of fighting one side of the other to a standstill. so ukraine applying that as well by falling back trade space and get russian casualties effectively in return for every field would line building

ukraine loses it was russia to believe that until it reaches the point that the russians longer be on the offensive anywhere. and that's when this new equipment ukraine is looking at. that's when they want match, went to the fight in a month or 2, given the opportunity strike back, retake that church. he quickly like. we've seen ukraine during the past is what we're seeing right now. what the russians are doing in and around by mood already this large scale offensive because we always talk about how the value of the mood is really questionable. so is this really what international analysts and the ukranian government have been warning about? there can be more to come. i mean, i think what we're never going to see in this offensive with a check of 5 drop and tanks go speeding into the distance and the russian side. the capability of the russian military is very much less than it was a year ago in terms of individual competence. they might have more people now

engaged in ukraine, but the arab standard is lower. they were able to train the units in these time before they've now had to re equip them retrain them in more time. they haven't reached the standard they were at a year ago, and that's all gonna limit what russia can do in terms of more ambitious offenses. this time, they could still generate some surprises and we're looking towards how keith potentially, as never were rushes, gathering more equipment. but overall, i think what we're seeing is the sort of a tight of offensive, if you like a steady pressure increasing from russia, but fundamentally, the capabilities remain small and it's focused on capturing, as we said, i feel that a would a time. i think what we're not gonna see is tanks from the russian side of bouncing 1020 kilometers and capturing large sways of territory. at the moment. i think they're limited to this steamroller pressure. and you had what we see now. today in brussels, we saw western allies talk about ukraine's spring counter offensive. now we are

a little ways from spring still, and presumably they're talking about once those tanks arrive that they have pledge and that the ukrainians are now training on, but of russia intensifies its attacks. now ukraine might be in for a dramatic losses. isn't there too much of a time lag between the western promises of weapons and ukraine actually receiving them? i think anyone in ukraine would say that they needed these months ago? i did that too late. i think of course, he credit of light the sooner like much more that they've received sooner than they've got it. i, i think they should be able to absorb what russians are throwing them again. if you look the, the russian strategy in as much as that has the one round. what was to try and draw tens of thousands more people from the ukranian military into the defense of the town. and ukraine never quite had to resort to that again. they spared people trading that you just heard in the previous segment, a tank crews are on the front line just a week or 2 ago,

now empowered and training and re equipping. if you crane was in ready to straits, to cope with rush pressure at the moment that wouldn't be happening. so the fact that they're able to still rotate that units back to the front line. yes, it's desperate fighting. it's extremely hard. but ukraine is still under such pressure that it can't prepare for its next move at this time. so i don't think it is too late. i think for some on, on the frontline right now and, but they might say it was, but it's all a matter of perception where we're sitting. and certainly at the moment, the anticipation that we have is that ukraine should be able to roll with the russian offense if they will, almost certainly lose territory. it's a matter of how much they take russia pay each bit of that church, they lose. and then when russia has exhausted itself, that is the time for ukraine to push back hard and they should in theory, achieve much better results that way. now they have to hold this offensive. when that's the question, what we all have at the moment is precisely, you know, how bad will this get? yeah. your

a tank commander and herself. how are these western tangs like the german leopards or the british challenger is going to make a difference. you know, i've afraid both i'm, i'm fond of both they are much better vehicle for wiffle than the russian equivalent. suddenly the average russian time at the moment that facing russia does have a smaller number of better vehicles. but the majority are old ones and the western tanks leopard to and the challenge to especially with designed specifically to be better than the russian peers by a significant margin. and we've seen that in conflicts around the world. they are better protected, they're better engineered. they have better fall control systems. they're more lethal in the myriad of, of the things to do to make them better vehicles. they are more technically complex ones. ukrainians have been operating. but again, as you heard in the segments before this, they all sending experience crews. they spend periods, cruise to parlance, right frontline,

they're sending experience two's the u. k. and the train is in both countries. just saying how well motivated and how experience ukrainian crews saw that, as we just said, that having to hold them back almost learn from the technical aspects because they're just very keen to use the equipment. they know how to use it to fight. they need to learn a bit more about how to maintain and get the most out of it, but ready, they're ready to go back with them. so it's a great piece of equipment. it's got good crews coming for who know what they're doing. they just have to learn a bit to make it more endurable in the field because the logistic trade in the, the maintenance trading that comes west and tank normal, complicates and expensive. but overall fantastic pieces of equipment that not going to win a battle on their own, or they're not designed for that. no, no. the visual weapon will of who may be a nuclear weapon, but they are really, really good. what ukrainian army wants, which is something that can hit hard and push the russians back in a couple of months. i'm just in crump, of civil lien. always a pleasure speaking to you. thank you so much for your time. thank you.

ah. the numbers are staggering, at least 10 entire cities, reduced to rubble over 40000 people dead. 26000000, an urgent need of assistance. according to the united nations, the earthquakes and syrian turkey amount to the worst natural disaster in the region in a century. a week after the event, many aid organizations are now starting to shift their focus from search and rescue to caring for the people who've lost it all. but emergency crews haven't given up on the search for survivors and people are still being discovered alive. more than a week trapped under rubble. 17 year old mohammed is pulled out alive and got home on mateusz and turkey near d at the center of the devastating earthquake. he's carry to an ambulance mohammed, brother, becky, is rescued soon after. but hopes of finding more survivors are fading fast. rescue

teams are scaling back operations to focus in both turkey and syria, shifting instead to helping survivors. first with immediate relief, like food, water, and shelter, and then assisting them long term. the rescue phase is dragging live people out from the rubble from funding those who died to the rubble that's coming to a close. and now the humanitarian phase. the urgency of providing shelter psycho social care, food schooling and a sense of the future for these people. that's our obligation ago, syria's infrastructure was already battered from over a decade of civil war. in some areas, the earthquake brought total devastation, liking government controlled aleppo. people are waiting for shelter, tents and blankets,

but mistrust of the regime runs deep. many fear the 8 coming into the country will not reach them. serious government has so far only allowed aid to rebel areas through one border crossing public foot, but in an unprecedented move. but it says it's reopening 2 additional land crossings with turkey, syria, sept. portal. the entry of humanitarian aid into the region through old porcelain cross points with ever from inside syria or across the border. for the period of 3 months, his displace syrians living in dire conditions and the rebel health northwest can only hope the promises kept sunk own gentlemen. in turkey, the disaster destroyed 10 cities. at least 40000 buildings collapsed or were severely damaged. many now need to be demolished,

turkeys government has been accused of a slow response to the quake didn't a relief and long term reconstruction are set to be a major challenge, help deal with along with housing, the millions who are suddenly left homeless. our correspondent at pear accent. this report from cathy and temp in southern turkey were thousands, have been latanus that he is a municipal park in central guys. the an tap is a southern turkish city of about 2000000 people. and as you can see, a number of tents have been erected here to house refugees who had to flee their homes in the earthquake. now, many of the homes that they have to, that they had to flee with ones up on this hill just here or in a local area around here. and essentially the authorities haven't been able to tell these people that their homes are safe, yet. they haven't been checked or the homes are not safe, but in a lot of cases as well,

the people are to traumatize and who worried to return back to their homes, fearing the structural damage that may have taken place during the earthquakes. now one of the big issues in this camp is accessed, attends this serial family told us just now that they had to wait 2 days in order to get a 10. a many people have had to wait many, many more days than that. there are quite a lot of syrians here, people that fled the war in the past 5 to 10 years and made a home in this part of turkey and then have had to flee those homes. once again, due to the earthquake that hit this area just over a week ago, there are also local turks and kurdish people living here as well. now, well, this park might not be an ideal place and certainly wasn't designed to house this kind of 10 city. there are some facilities here that make it a relatively good place for them to have sat there thought. for instance, there are toilet blocks already here that people can use as

a library just down the way over there that has been turned into a makeshift clinic. now one of the big concerns for the people that are living in these tens, especially from for the ones that are naturally from this part of kathy. and that is that within 60 days they will have to return back to the local municipality to register. and they don't know what that will be, whether they will be able to return to these tens afterwards. but the ones with the 10, so actually the lucky ones for everyone else hasn't managed to get attend. yes, that's leaping on the floors in these buildings. and the situation that isn't very nice for them as they wait for a slightly more permanent place to live. there are 8 organizations here providing food and water medicine. but there's a lot of fear for the people here. they just don't know what's going to happen in the coming days and weeks. ah, it's valentine's day and millions of people around the world are celebrating

romance and love should this man jakob young to be one of them. this must be a very special one for him because it's the 1st valentine's day after the check football or let the world know he loves men. when the sport, prog midfielder came out as gay. on monday he joined just a handful of professional male footballers who've done so before retiring from the game. he's also the 1st active international player to do so, john, to made the announcement in an emotional video he published on twitter. let's take a look. i'm going to like everybody else. i've my strengths, my weaknesses. i for my friends, i said job, which i been doing it as best as i can. for years i would share this process and like everybody else. i also want to live my life and freedom for years with bridge violence over love. i'm

almost social and i no longer wants to hide myself. for this let's bring in jim dolan, he's a founder of pride of iron, that's the official l g b t q i a supporters group at the english premiership club, west him mr. dylan. welcome to the day and tell me how important is jacobi young toes announcement. good evening. so you have a movie, i think is very important because it's another contributing factor to show that the tide has truly turned on. this issue. you know, we've seen a number of people around the fo, industry coming out. you know, if the is referees in the officials, then we had just a value come out. we had jake, the news on murray and i think now we're seeing that more and more people feel comfortable. i think every person who comes along sets another boundary in terms of creating a safe environment, making people realize that, you know,

the other side isn't perhaps as bad as i 1st thought. and hopefully, willing towards a place where, you know, these announcement won't happen because actually will become accepted. that's where we will want to get to. we will want to start talking about this issue. i think just have to get the 1st kind of couple of hurdles and went on away. exactly what does that tell us about the culture that for since then felt well that yeah, come young to feel the need to come out the way he did and that we're reporting it as news i media. i feel for what he said because it, it struck a chord with me that i just want to live my life. you know, and he talks about being a professional. he talks about, you know, not having to hide and is always part of you know, mess what profession you're in. the if you're not outs, if you are hiding that part yourself, you can't be 100 percent. you got the 100 percent in your job. you can't give a 100 percent of to yourself because it's always hard. your energy that's committed to hiding a truth. so i think, you know, he had to kind of do that. and as i think

a lot of people in that position, feel that they have to make these announcements because i think they need to prepare the public, you know, give them that heads up before they come out and say, you know, i'm, i'm, they're comfortable myself. and i want you to be comfortable with it. and football is the biggest sport in europe and has a very small number of openly gay male players. why is that? i just think it's, this is become such an issue over the years i think is taken, you know, these, these brave people to just that foreigner and make those 1st tentative steps. and hopefully what they show is that actually it's, it's not the problem that the people thought perhaps the, you know, the, the reactions, people getting on the whole, i think more positive. and like, i say, i think he is setting a precedent. i think maybe there's the culture of, of who is often seen as the culture of society through a magnifying glass. and i think sometimes some of the social problems we have can seem exaggerated book community is like always when you go on to the surface and

you start speaking to your average every day, full support. so you find that most people don't care. that's kind of thing. you know, i think it's one of those problems where you know that there's a loud minority perhaps actually majority of people go with, you know, what, what yeah, i said they, you know, just let people if the lives. yeah. you say the time has turned and how entrenched is toxic masculinity and homophobia in today's football culture, from the stands all the way to club owners and organizations like faith. for example, i don't know about explicit home a favor think it's actually almost insidious and so, so you know, you don't hear as many explicit homophobic chance as you use deeper. there are people pushing back on some of the things that, you know, people do raise as a chart that's often used about chelsea that people don't agree is homophobic and then it's become a bit public discourse around that. but i think on the whole, it's one of those is one of those things. the often it seems like there's

a big problem there is because unfortunately, is the psychological aspects of where, you know, people start singing a song other people joined in. and if you're a gay player and a song comes out, child that has a, a homophobic, an edge to hear that. so the amplifier, the perception of the program or do you think it's a hurdle is an image problem that we need to go over by? like i say, i think underneath the surface, the culture for all the culture full supposes, i don't think is intrinsically homophobic. why do you think we need a culture shift turned ellen is working for that culture shift as the founder of pride of irons, the official l d v d q. i a support group at west and in england. thank you so much for your time. thank you. and that is our time for today. we'll be back tomorrow. in the meantime, make sure to stay informed. stay engaged and stay in touch. you can follow our team on twitter at www. myself at nicole underscore fully for now though from the entire team on the day. thank you so much for spending part of your day.

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