ah ah ah ah, this is the w news lied from berlin. ukraine says that its future depends on winning the battle for bach moved. intense fighting has raged in the eastern city for months with each side, suffering heavy losses. get opinion is divided over the strategic importance of the area. also coming up australia unveils plans to buy at least 3 nuclear submarines

from the united states. joe biden calls it an inflection point in history, but china says it is a dangerous road. how would it impact global security and markets in asia? think as reassurances from president biden failed to com fears of contagion after the collapse of 2 regional banks in the us and recovery efforts in malawi as 5 on friday lashes, the southern african country with the provincial rain and high winds. ah, i'm sarah kelly. welcome to the program keys and moscow are both suffering heavy losses as fighting intensifies in the eastern city of bar moved. it is where the

heaviest fighting has taken place in the year long war. president's lensky overnight vowed to quote, destroy russia. they're saying that ukraine's future depends on the outcome of what happens in bach, mood and other key areas. but there are doubts that defending the city is the best strategy for ukraine. up against the longest and bloodiest battle of moscow's of invasion to battle for bach moot, do ukrainian unit fires back, sending our fresh in attempts to take control of this city center. ah, fierce fighting has inflicted heavy losses on both sides. that ukraine says the battle for bar moot is one of the decisive fights for its future. does result on us would you? the situation in the east is very tough, very painful. we need to destroy the enemies military power and we will be with her

if gear and maria anchor of div kid, and by mood will glinda and come younger and all other places were a future is being decided and the future of all ukrainians is being fought for grains viejo, russia has been trying to capture the eastern ukrainian city for months. so far. russian mercenaries have only managed to encircle back moot. moscow is now intensifying its campaign. delivering ammunition to wagner fighters who have been spearheading the attack on bar mood. school the. some $4000.00 residents are still in the town, according to an official tele, despite the fierce fighting in and around it were grammar, progression, commanders, the capture of the city would mean an opportunity not to deliver good news for you

to the kremlin grant. your course of weather and earlier i spoke with correspond mathias ballinger in keith and asked him to bring us up to date on who controls what? in bartlet, it looks like her. the wagner soldiers, the russian soldiers have intensified their attacks on the city center. they have been controlling the eastern part of the city for some days. now, there is a river separating the territories and it seems that they are now attacking on the other side of the river. the territory that you create is controlling. however, it's very unclear whether they are making any progress. it's in their tactics so far for quite some time to just continue talking no matter what, accepting huge losses of course, and so they have been successful, but in a very slow way. so far. so it's not possible to say exactly where who is standing, where at the moment, but the fears battles inside the city in the city center. they seem to be

continuing a while. russian bloggers are complaining that the russian side is not making real progress the ukrainians continue to defend the city. and there has been some discussion, you know, military experts have been weighing in about, you know, how strategic in fact, this particular area is. so just walk us through with the debate as here. yeah, so the losses of the ukrainian side are presumably also very high. we don't have exact figures as always from either either side, the ukrainians. keep maintaining that the russian losses are much higher. and that is why it's worth stopping them there and not retreating and then taking the fight to the next town are which will then have the same fate as buttonwood. that's those who defend ukraine's actions in buttonwood are saying the others camper saying that the losses are way too high, and that these soldiers will also be missing for further offensive operations and

jar that it's not worth throwing in. so many soldiers into a battle that seems to be really hard to win and yet through kind in leadership has decided to continue holding back more precisely for the reason that they do not want the battle to go further into the ukrainian territory. not they do not want her to come at oscar main city in the region targeted or slowdowns the 2nd or main city. it's not as strategic or location in the sense that it would open or, or you know, lots of roads into the country. there's, there are few, few roads that lead to these 2 cities that i've just mentioned, but it's not a major transport hub. it's not a hill that you conquer, and then you can move beyond the hill or something like that mathias falling. now with a view from keith, thank you. china has criticize

a plan by australia to buy all these 3 nuclear powered submarines from the u. s. and the u. k. beijing accused the 3 countries of going quote, further down a dangerous road. and disregarding the concerns of the international community, the u. s. u. k. and australia unveiled the plans on monday as they held the meeting of their new and controversial security alliance known as office oh, a hearty welcome for the 3 global leaders. they've come together, 2 unknowns, not just a major arms deal, but a historic strategic partnership. the oak is agreement. we confirm here in san diego, represent the biggest single investment in australia's defense capability in all about history. australia will buy as many as 5 of these nuclear powered submarines and later build a new on themselves based on

a british design with u. s. technology. it's a long time upgrade that will make australia a phil partner in fielding top secret us nuclear technology. previously only shared with the u. k. coordinators nor partnership. we're showing again how democracies can deliver our own security to prosperity and not just for us but for the entire world. august is an attempt to counter growing chinese military power, which includes beijing's construction of a sophisticated naval fleet. britain is also beating up its military capabilities. it is more important than ever that we strengthen the resilience of our own countries. that's why the u. k. is today announcing a significant helpless and our defense budget. we're providing an extra 5000000000 pounds over the next 2 years. austria isn't getting nuclear weapons,

but the nuclear propulsion of the new submarine fleet will add substantial strength to the western alliance. and bates scale is executive director for china analysis at the ages society policy institute. he explained how this new cooperation between australia, the u. k, and the u. s. could counter chinese influence the major major step forward. i would say certainly for the military technical cooperation across these 3 powers the, the issue here is that it's going to take many, many years for it to be fully in place. and there are a couple of stopgap measures over the near term there. well, we'll have a real impact on countering a chinese military expansion in this region. particularly with the rotation the, the plant rotation of up to 5 us nuclear propelled a nuclear submarines which will be based here in australia. remind us of how china

has been acting in the region recently. well, over the last 10 or 15 years, the chinese military has really grown quite considerably. and both quite quantitative and qualitative terms. we see a lot more presence of, of the chinese military and asserting its claims, for example, in the south china sea. and of course, increasingly assertive and aggressive even in its military activities toward taiwan. and it's these and increasingly, apparently trying to expand its presence in the western pacific much closer trust, really shores. so in all of these ways, i think we see much, much greater concern on the part of australia as well as on his partners, as well as in his partners, united states and united kingdom. how about other countries in the pacific region? how are they reacting to what is rising tension between china and the united states

especially? well, it's a mixed picture. i would say, i mean, i think obviously the, the countries of south these days are, for example, don't want to be forced to choose between the economic benefit they gain in their relationship with china on the one hand versus the sort of security benefits they can gain from american power in the region, but i think they're increasingly seeing that this is going to be a difficult set of tensions over time. and, and the last thing they want to do is be caught in the middle of it. so i think there's increased anxiety across the region about the direction in us china relations right now. payscale in sydney. thank you so much and have a look at some other stories making headlines. china is reopening in order to foreign tourists for the 1st time in 2020, it will start reissuing all categories of visas. from wednesday, the taurus band was imposed early in the coven,

1900 pandemic. china dropped it strict 0 covert policy late last year. and has gradually been using travel restrictions. scientists have released footage of a massive iceberg that broke off of antarctica in january. the $81.00 iceberg is estimated to be the size of london. the aerial images were recorded by 18 whose research station was once located on the iceberg. they had been monitoring growing cracks in the ice sheet for over a decade. former us president donald trump has held his 1st rally since the launch of his 2024 presidential campaign. speaking in iowa, trump attacked florida governor randa santas fina as his strongest probable challenger for the republican nomination. iowa is a crucial early voting state in the race. asian chairs declined sharply on tuesday as concerns over the health of global financial markets. steven

u. s. president joe biden has promised to do whatever is needed to strengthen american financial institutions. after the collapse of both signature bank and silicon valley bank biden has told americans that their banking system is safe, even as fears of another u. s. banking crisis rise. the 2 bank failures are the worst since the 2008 global financial crisis. and they have taken their toll on the markets. it was under the turbulent day on the asian markets as tokyo stalks closed down 2 percent despite reassurances from the u. s. president joe biden. e, or far it is say they are monitoring the situation, but do not expect the u. s. failures to cause long term problems in europe. we take note of the swift undecided reaction by the us authorities within the you. there is a very limited presence of silicon valley bank, and of course we are in touch with the relevant national competence authorities.

that message was echoed by e u. finance ministers, including germany's kristian lind. nathan got hundreds, harden we've got out of the art tiny out of it. in germany, for example, we have earned financial regulatory bodies, which is continually monitoring a situation. these at these institutions have no doubts whatsoever about stability on their stability. it are, aren't these institution kinds? why for glossing, in this case, i'm not, i have faith generally chronic, but m u. s. the failures have brought back painful memories of the devastating meltdown of 2008 in a bit to lesson uncertainty and divert further, banking runs. u. s. president joe biden hurried to reassure the public. all customers who had deposited these bank can rest assured, i am rest assured they'll be protected and now have access to their money. as of today, no losses will be borne by the taxpayers. instead,

the money will come from the fees, a banked pay, end of the deposit insurance fund. biden's stressed that unlike in the past, irresponsible behavior by banking executives would not be tolerated. the management of these banks will be fired if the bank is taken over by f d. i see the people running the bank should not work there anymore. i'm going to ask congress from the bank regulators to strengthen the rules for banks to make it less likely. this kind of bank failure would happen. again. those rules were introduced after us bank spock to global financial crisis in 2008 by aggressive mortgage lending. they were partially repealed in 2018 under them president donald trump. in the coming days, that decision is likely to be back in the spotlight. here the business partner on january is on the story for us. so where does the situation now with silicon valley bank stand after by the state yesterday? so from a practical standpoint,

now depositors have started to withdraw their funds. request to withdraw are going through other doing that through a bridge bank that was established by the us government. and apparently of course, it's a little bit of a mess right now. a lot of people are requesting this withdrawals. so there are some reports that people had to try thousands of times before they were able to get funds. and mostly we have to always remember, these are funds that does depositors are taking out to pay their employees and they were unable to do that last week. a lot of up to 5000, i think tech startups where the positive into silicon valley bank. so that's what, what's happening on the ground. now, it's clear that indeed was a president biden problems is happening. so people are actually able to, we throw those funds and eventually every everyone will be made whole regarding the banks, the banks are now officially seized. they will cease operations, the men of which management will be fired. so they sort of cease to exist, their funds will be seized and they will be as to recall the investment. and the

big hope is that this will provide an injection of confidence that will prevent another bank in crisis, like the one that we saw in 2008. that in terms of where things stand right now. ha, how high is the fear that we could see and other banking crisis? well, the fear is there. absolutely. i would say that the u. s. administration was pretty quick. they worked over the weekend with this measures seemed to work to appease at least the posit. hers was a big bully who political stance here that was way since from what we saw in 2008. they stressed that this is not a bailout of investors. in the banks, actually investors will shoot a cost for this mass. they will, they took a risk bite and set into this capitalism. capitalism risks can sometimes not pay out, so it's not a lot of investors. the positive will be protected. and what's also very different is that what we're seeing is not banks selling toxic derivatives to the entire global system. and in a, in a scheme that was overlooked for too long. now this is

a case of appalling, mismanagement on and upholding risk management, especially from silicon valley banks and other banks. they took too many risk on long term interest related products. so with this kind of products, when the interest rates were low, while the value was high, now that the fed decided to high the rates, of course, those, those products are less valuable when the depositors started to run on the bank to take their deposits out. because they probably sense that something was wrong with the bank, of course that the bank even had liquidity to honor those requests as a consequence of the banker. and so the banks. so they had to fold it collapsed because it couldn't honor those a request. something similar happened to signature on there were also exposed to crypto assets, but at the same time, in that case, the government intervene faster and block the bank. one of the markets make of all of this, well, they're clearly jittery. we've seen that they don't like,

i would say, don't like, especially what president biden said. it's as if sometimes capitalists don't like to be reminded not enough of an assurance. well, it's and definitely reassurance for the positives because they're being protected but bite and said this is capitalism is sort of said like this kind of capitalism, baby kind of thing. where he sat, you took risks, you're gone and now shoot a cost for those risks. so there's uncertainty that other banks might go the same, the same direction. and as we know, uncertainty is not good for markets. if it's a supporter, andrea employee so much at play here. thank you so much for walk me through it. my pleasure. nearly a 100 people are confirmed dead in malawi after cyclone friday slammed into southeastern africa with torrential rain and high winds. this is the 2nd time in a month that freddy has made landfall in southern africa. having earlier struck madagascar. it is one of the strongest and the longest lasting storms to ever be

recorded in the southern hemisphere. some way on to these washed off roads and my, lovey, our people rescue workers like trust owned chic, a foot. well, i trying to find them linna millionaire in the so far we have recovered 30 bodies. but we're not yet done. oh, go and we're still looking for more victims. amusing miss ho to at least find someone who was psych loan. freddy has wrecked houses in the city of blunt here and created rushing streams that residence us struggling to cross many of the injured have been taken to hospitals, but others are still missing. really what young women in her mother was so bad in the night doing that when job was the one now that it's day time i can feel the loss resident of it was

a goodness. but i've never seen something as terrible as those were nearby. my neighbors homes are gone month and their family members are gone. ah, in some cases the father is alive, but the wife and the children are missing on the floor. excell cycle on friday killed several people in mozambique before making its way to my loving. scientists say such tropical storms are getting stronger due to climate change. they want that video rather like this will only become more frequent unless pluto's drastically produce carbon emissions. and now elsewhere, tunisia is seeing a search in racist attacks on people from sub saharan africa. it comes after today as president claimed last month, that migrants from the south are part of an international plot to change the country as demographic make up. many of the migrants arriving in tunisia come from the ivory coast. molly or cynical migration to tunisia has increased in recent

years as it's considered safer. the neighboring libya some move on to europe, but others end up staying official figures show that the country of 12000000 is currently home to 20. 1000 migrants from sub saharan africa. now many are finding that there are, they are no longer welcome, he w's yon phillips schultz reports from tunisia. there's not much to do now that he's lost his job. pierre's anger came from cameroon to tunisia, 5 years ago, wanting to send money home. but his residency expired and his boss at a restaurant suddenly became nervous. after the president said he wanted to fight against illegal migrants. watching videos doesn't help. pierre social media is full of actual or supposed violence between locals and people like him. i've been singing dancing with people in the street, and suddenly everything turned the look out. people change to you. that believe

me is her, is like her m o m movie a scary movie. you see tunisians have shown support for people. president saeed, called criminals, who are infiltrating tunisian culture. and the world bank said it would suspend its partnership with the country. but the foreign minister can't comprehend these steps . he told d w. he sees tunisia as a victim of a hostile campaign. well, those reactions are over exaggerated and we sheeted that they are very much unfair, but we are open to any dialogue in order to find the best solution that will protect the dignity and the eyes of all the migrants. many tunisians seemed to support the president. the country's economy is in crisis, and many accused irregular migrants of taking jobs away from locals. another i'm

against too many africans here in denisia. we should support them, especially in such difficult times as now. i never dare lucky the, and i don't think we should report every one would know that we are all africans on this continent. oh, and the truth is that many tunisians don't want to do the jobs that the microns take on for a tiny celery battery. every one of them is pierre says it's clear that he is no longer welcome. in tunisia, many of his friends are already making their way to europe. he's also thinking about getting on a boat. ah, these don't, you don't have him was abilities to which to tint julia actual life for of lee. oh do you will. you will take the decision to, to go to the sea. i'm sorry, this is the reality. and yet,

pierre fears the reality on the other side of the mediterranean may not be much better. assuming he makes it past coastal patrols and survives the perilous crossing. now we're going to head to the wealth of sports and tennis, the indian wells masters in california, the reigning champions, and the men's and women's signals. singles have been showing off their class. but some heavy hitters had to say good bye in the women's draw. raining wimbledon champion, elena re backing her ousted former indian wells when a palla, but also to claim her spot in the last 16, but the biggest upset in the women's draw. so weld number 4 also burn knocked out by market of under sofa who was ranked 100 and 5th. after beating jabber at the australian open in january, the 23 year old check again prevailed after too close sets to set up a meeting with her compatriot, carolyn, a much over in the next round. later top,

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losses there and have described the fighting as tough a plan by australia to buy at least 3 nuclear powered submarines from the u. s. in the u. k. as part of the allies, new august security pact as anger china, beijing accused the 3 countries of going, quote, further down a dangerous road and of disregarding the concerns of the international community. of next sunday, w it is the environment shall eco africa including report on how farmers and kenya are adapting to drought conditions. i'm sorry kelly and berlin, thanks for watching. ah ah

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