[000:00:00;00] ah ah ah this is dw, use live from berlin. the battle for bah, more to in the eastern ukraine. it becomes the longest stand off in the war. we look at what is at stake,

why each side is determined to take the city. despite the heavy human toll. as they are to fits ministers prepared to meet for a 2nd day key, verges its allies to speed up the delivery of military 8. and the un says the earthquakes in turkey and syria, the regions worse natural disaster in a century or than a week on the focus now turns to meeting the needs of the homeless. ah, i've been fizzle and welcome. russia is intensifying efforts to take the area of bar morton east in ukraine. there are reports the russian troops of bombarding more than 20 villages and towns they are with mortar and artillery. fire area is the side of the longest running battle in the war. analysts say any victory would be symbolic because the city is not strategically vital. however,

both ukraine and russia say they determined to prevail. telescope, lynn, as i'm disco, was unlocked, to draw a subdued lumps. this is the glamour, according to russian state td into what's become known as the meat grinder with over the city of blackmore, which has been nicknamed to such because neither the russians nor the ukrainians have been able to make much progress here. resulting in the brutal stalemate that's produced, the longest battle of the war and one of the bloodiest for all the sides involved to both of them. if everyone can see that we're having a hard time on this section of the front of the enemy are constantly attacking in small, under big groups of one day. it's their artillery. on the next day they're infantry attacked. so it's a difficult time at the moment. but our boys keep standing their ground with the battle full back, which is now in its 7th month. russian officials recently claimed that its full

says have almost encircled the city. not so says the head of the walk in a messner regroup, which has spearheaded the russian offensive. and pushing forward house by house me a square meter by square meter. it's hard work. it's not clear at all where the stories about some kind of encirclement coming from really is sure i have just the lunch box moved will not be taken to morrow, but because there is heavy resistance. it's grinding. the meat grinder is working on my new phone. ah, despite the ferocity of fighting back mode isn't considered a game changer in the small military. analysts say the city hold small symbolic than strategic importance, but it's important nonetheless, it's capture would give the kremlin a much needed victory. after months of setbacks ant, give its troops and you foretold in the dawn best region,

which the russians partially occupy, but one full control off for keith and its trips back moved, hold emotional value was the monthly ball mifflin, and nobody will give a battle to mobile ski will fight for as long as we can. venmo baffled. we consider back loot our fortran national for this we consider people who died their heroes at all. vicki, them follow mazda roy. of course the city is more than just a prize in battle for back most people. it was home. yet you husband the hood. dear god, our town used to be so beautiful. there were roses everywhere, flowers it. oh, but it was clean. everything was kept in order. it's

a memory that stands in stark contrast to scenes like this. and the bloody battles that have earned back mode, it's greece, some name i spoke to the w, corresponded nick connelly and keven began by asking him why, but what is so important for both sides wedding as we heard presence alaskan that report describing city as a kind of ukrainian fortress, it's kind of really about the symbolism here. but the fact that on the one hand, the russians are desperate for when, after so many months, the setbacks of losing cats on a low territory near forgive. they really now need something to show their own public back home. why this war is happening and what they're achieving. and then on the ukraine, sonia president, he decided to basically put this kind of focus on. but more than to kind of invest this much can political capital in holding on to the city. and that's something he hasn't nursery done in the past. and some military alice are asking if that was wise. as for the strategic importance, while there's a lot of discussion among military experts as to quite how important the city is,

some people say that actually you'll be easier for you. craniums soldiers to defend a position, slightly west, the city to leave. and to basically use the geography to find better positions, the real kind of center of ukrainian logistics and control in that part of the country is kind of a thought which is, you know, doesn't clumps as to the west. so as for the kind of real kind of strategic importance that is up for debate, but certainly this is something that is at the center of everyone's attention here is being followed very closely and has huge symbolic importance. well, there are reports russian shelling intensifying that ukrainian force is reportedly blew up a breach to retreat possibly. is ukraine losing buckboard as to that bridge? we can't confirm that for now. the cranium military is often very slow to confirm those kind of things, especially if things aren't going very well for them. but we have heard that in recent days, access the city has been closed for journalists and civilian volunteers, bringing in humanitarian aid. that is something that is new, the city was near despite the dangers open to outside is up till very recently. so that could be

a sign that things are going very badly and there is preparation going on to leave the city. certainly you hear from ukrainian military pundits that they say the army will leave while they still have the 2 access roads in and out rather than face being surrounded there. and i think you, you know, see public opinion here in key of gradually coming round to the realization it's better to leave than to risk huge losses especially given the fact there are some very experienced and very capable ukrainian units. nat city losing those to crushing, you know, to become prisoners of war or to potentially the live that is not something anyone here thinks is worth doing. what difference would it make if you kind had wasted fighter jets? why i think it's important to kind of look at what those jets do. it's not just about the symbolism or the kind of prestige getting those planes they firstly allow you to deal with ballistic and cruise missiles. in addition to the kind of land based systems that ukraine is getting. those patriot systems from the states and western european countries. and they also allow you crank project force forward at

a time where you can't, isn't getting long range missiles from the united states, from other western european countries of the kind that it wants. this would allow it to attack russian supply lines deep behind the front lines. and then it's obviously as everything in this kind of these negotiations in ukraine, it's wesson's partner. there's also the emotional aspect. there is a desire here to really get european countries and the united states to kind of nailed their kind of flag, to the, to the post, to be more wholehearted and open in their support of ukraine. they say, now you're safe behind that american nuclear umbrella. you don't need these planes much sweetheart. you're not going to give us those same security guarantees that you have in europe. that give us what we need to protect ourselves as a real sense that, you know, with the tanks already. european countries have been kind of forced out of their comfort zone to really be more loud and kind of open in their support for ukraine, and that planes would be in the for the step in that direction. nicolai, keep thank you. will nato defense ministers are meeting for

a 2nd day in kiva to or in brussels rather to discuss military aid for keith resident floor. miss lansky is urging allies to speed up the delivery of weapons, saying this is the only way you crank and gain the upper hand. ukraine says this is a fight for its survival. as to winter begins to thaw, the united states warns russia is preparing fresh attacks and deploying new troops to the battlefield. but washington says he is may soon have a window of opportunity. what ukraine wants to do in her, at, at the 1st possible moment is to establish or create her or momentum and her in and establish her conditions on a battlefield road to continue to be in its favor. and so were we expect to see them or conduct an offensive or sometime in the spring

to fulfill their promise to keep sending keys, weapons. nato nations need more arms and munitions as their own stockpiles dwindle . germany says it's now signed a contract to restart home world production lines for gepford antiaircraft guns sent to ukraine with their florida. i'm very pleased. we've succeeded in doing this because it will ensure even greater independence and faster delivery. it's particularly important for air defense in ukraine of it as old as it is. the captured performs outstanding services, particularly in defense against drones, out by the dawn up there. after securing pledges of western main battle tanks key, it is now setting it sites on the skies at nato headquarters, ukrainian defense minister alexi rest. nicole pulled out of pocket square depicting the next item on his weapons. wishlist western fighter jets get from the skype. but so far there are no offers of modern aircraft,

some site to complexity of the systems. others fear the risk of escalation. we have to debate this with our partners also with the united states, and we have to think about feasibility. and it is something that will take time and it is best done behind closed doors or to see what is possible, what is not possible. what consequences would be made to officials now warn this more has become a race of logistics and speed they say will save life. the values alexander phenomena is following the summit in brussels. i asked her if nato could eventually give in to ukraine's play to deliver fighter jets. well, i think that eventually they probably will. and nato officials that i've been speaking with a told me that of course, nato's goal is to help the ukrainian forces switch to nato standards. eventually, a birds are, they also said to dad,

so we can expect that ukraine will be running out of their soviet area jets and the spur parts for them. but at the moment, no announcements have been made in brussels and the discussion is still ongoing. and we have to say that there are some allies that are very cautious, they say, as which has hurt in that report, that there is a risk of an escalation that they don't want ukraine to use to fight to jad, to attack russian territory. but most of those who are being cautious are also saying that is just a complex matter when it comes to training, maintenance and spur apart. so we don't expect any decision on that soon. ukraine also says it's running out of time. what about speeding up the delivery of military 8? this is very important at the top of the agenda here,

for especially when we talk about emanation. and we have to consider that ukraine according to estimates, is firing around $5000.00 artillery rounds every day. it says roughly as much as the small european country orders are to be produced every year. so you can imagine how are many rounds you create needs at the same time, it's crucial for nato and the allies yet to maintain their ability to protect allied territory. so this is a very difficult task and the only solution here is to ramp up the production. however, this is going to take some time, but considering all the ammunition that's coming from nato members, and that has been promised how much of a concern, a dwindling ammunition supplies for nato members themselves. well,

i think this is a big concern for nato allies. how to solve this problem, how to make sure that they can continue supporting ukraine with the weapons, ammunition, but also add offense systems and how at the same time maintained able ability to protect ne to territory. nato. secretary general also says he sees no signs that putins willing to end this war, sir. and so how is nate, who preparing for a longer conflict? while they will discuss to day, the political guidance, to be prepared for whatever may com and they are expected to talk very specifically . how many tanks, how many air defense systems they will need in the future? we expect them also to further strengthen nato's a posture on its eastern flank. they will probably also speak about so strengthening. there are very high readiness joint task force personnel,

dirt, so all that is on the agenda. brussels bureau chief, alexander phenomena, thank you very much. some other stories now making use former us ambassador to the united nations, nikki haley has announced she is running for the republican presidential nomination next year. she's the 2nd contender to join the race out to her one time boss. our former president trump demands more than how twitter c o even mosque says the end of 2023 would be a good time to find someone else to run the show. he had a down say, december that he would resign as the company's chief executive days before that mosque ran a twitter pole in which a majority voted that he should step down and a services been held in portland, florida to month a 5 year anniversary of a school shooting, that left 17 people did. memorial comes just a day after 3 people were killed in the latest mass shooting at a university. in michigan,

u. s. president joe biden again demanded that lawmakers take action against what he called americas gun violence epidemic. the death toll from the earthquakes in turkey and syria has the past 40000. the focus of the united nations operation has shifted from a rescue and recovery mission to caring for the millions of people made homeless in syria. more aid is only now just getting through help is finally on its way within hours of the you and negotiating a deal with the government and damascus to a pin, to border crossings between turkey and northwest and syria. this international aid convoy is heading straight on through the earthquake devastated parts of the opposition held legion in syria, and also damage the road to the only border crossing that had been approved for you and

a deliveries. 8 workers can now deliver more shell to materials blanket and medical supplies. i am now, you'll be on the articles gncf border, just log in to fats with no reproductive magazine. it's like it's a transaction parking. now we're not, we're celia, and they will deliberately slice $170.00. perceiving little d u. n is also launching a 397000000 dollar appeal to help nearly 5000000 people affected by the earthquake and syria. as the hope of finding people trapped alive under rubble in turkey and syria is dimming, rescue efforts are shifting their focus on to helping survivors. this war ship docked on the south coast of turkey has been turned into a floating hospital. there is no available hospital in my neighbourhood. the closest one is the hattie doughty all hospital,

but it's full of people injured by the quiet. that's why they can't provide help to people like me with slight injuries. instead of that hospital, we prefer this makes shift one tens of thousands of people have been injured by the earthquake and turkey. many requiring medical treatment with only 300 beds. the worship hospital can only relieve a small part of the current huge strain on the turkish health care system. for turkey dw corresponded. jack carrick spoke to me from outside a refugee camp for people who have lost their homes. i asked him about what people they were saying they made. so the people here, these are turkish people that live in garza and have lived in homes their entire lives. they. 1 have find themselves in the last 9 days or so, living in tens. this is a very new experience for them in this region of a turkey. there are a lot of syrian refugees that have come in my those are people that have already

lived in refugee camps before. and so they have different needs and there are some seeming divisions, psychologically between those 2 groups of people. and that is something that a workers have told us is starting to become something of a concern, but fundamentally is dropped massively in temperature overnight. well into the minus 3 minus 4 degrees celsius. there are real concerns about a sort of additional humanitarian issue of people getting very cold. doctors have told us there are lots of issues around about long infections and people having difficulty with breathing the whole of gas. the m tap has a sort of sickly sticky taste in the mouth where inside the tent they are burning different materials to try and keep themselves warm. so across the whole city, there's a sort of linger in the air. and the aid organizations are saying that something needs to be done as soon as possible to prevent this becoming a bigger crisis than just what, what, what the earthquake caused laughter

a natural disaster. there's limited time to find people alive and get them to safety. more than a week after the quakes on the turkish syrian border, the chances of survival a slight. but over the past few days, a number of miracle rescues have been captured on camera making use around the world. a teenage boy being carried to safety. a young girl being pulled out from underneath a mountain of debris. it's gives hope to people who have relatives missing and providing much needed moments of joy to rescue teams working in physically and emotionally challenging circumstances. well, my lease has sir, is from international search and rescue germany. she recently returned home from being in the turkish town of con, to help for survivors. could you tell me about the experience that you've been through? molly's hi, everyone together. yes. so my experience, to be honest,

it's quite hard to find just one word for it. so it was on one side really, really overwhelming, even if it sounds too positive to use this word. but to see all this is not damaged buildings. to see all the people. so it was really, really impressive to, to make this, this experience and to get to know the people which are now there. yeah. somehow at structured by this, this incident, you're highly trained in this line of work. how. how do you stay focused and keep going at such a monumental task when you've got such destruction all around it? yeah, it's a good question to be honest because was really yeah, energy stepping because we work several days just to get out one person and you

really need to keep the motivation up in the whole team because we, we worked and shifts and every time it was when we change to see that you hope that the suit shift before extracted the person and it was always a mixture of being someone somehow hopeless. and yeah, being motivated again to, to keep the person out because you have the family around and they all would owe them hope in just your work. so you, you do not really think about it. you just go on to, to work and to get her. is that where you get the motivation from, from, from the families around you from people. you're hoping that they'll still find a relative despite the odds. i mean, you know, 7 days after, after such a catastrophic disaster hits it's, yeah, it's on one side, one hand, the family and the relatives around you see in the face that they really trust you,

that you get the people out. and on the other hand it's, it's our team because everyone is there and keeps you up and it's real, it's somehow like a family you're with. and you. yeah, you, you motivate each other every day. when you wake up with the people working on the same objective, then it's, it's the motivation to go on with an international teams like you would have been returning home. so this was the work of search and rescue. basically done now let's say it's hard to say search and rescue it. let's say 11 wording. you can say ok yet. this is nearly done because search and rescue expect to have people being alive the rob and they are the, the chances right now quite low. but now the next step, let's say, comes up to, to start building up the city. again,

it's really hard to say when it's the exactly the point to stop at work tricky when my lease has it from international rescue and search and rescue germany. thank you very much for being on the w. thank you and tony to another big event on the other side of the world in rio de janeiro, which is gearing up for its 1st full scale carnival since the pandemic. while some celebrations went ahead last year in brazil, rio's famous street parties were cancelled. now organizes reckoned these festivities if going to be the biggest party on the planet. ah, it's been described as the reaper thin rio nodded neighborhoods rides across the city. oh, the sounds and colors of carnival aback. ah,

this year sees the full return of the world's biggest policy including the cities, epic, st. glucose, that mafia, unofficial launch, your carnival. hundreds have been authorized after being bans due to the cobra pandemic in 2022. and there's much to celebrate. allow in this carnival, what we need is to be happy. throw yourself in happiness. huck. people mistake lies . don't somebody lot. oh, williams. i think that politically this year is special. not only because of the pandemic, but also because you've had the victory of a left wing governments. i keep asking myself, what would become of this carnival if it were not to they speak to you of a left when governments foot for rio's world famous sam bas goes. there is no time for dancing. just yet. for months now, artisans well doesn't. so as i've been working long hours to have everything ready

for the main parade, acoustic image of the will miss you, lucy, believe in this romantic carnival. yes. that they see on television, the greatest show on us, but it's all about passion. where oh, app. boshra. nice to see, but it's also a lot hard work and b, mood of all than a year for a bio. he had been god to a my you one and for re i shop, harness they hope the cities passion for carnival. we'll also see, revel is spend big and help them to make up for the loss of tourism. during the pandemic, m, i have everything you need to sam, by the night away is on sale here with retail is expected to and more than $970000000.00 us dollars during the celebrations here in berlin, the red carpet is being rolled out ahead of the opening of one of the world's

biggest public film festivals, the 73rd. betty analite kicks off thursday with 19 movies flying for the golden and silver bare woods. this is a bench we'll focus on, the recent anti government protests in iran and the war in ukraine. among the headline is sean penn's documentary about ukrainian president ponies. lensky filmed as russia invaded ukraine almost a year ago. up next eco, india looks at white ground water reserves around the world a shrinking. i'm painful and i'll be back with mo. well, new stakes down to get it ah, ah,

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