to the difference, the w call in the world unpack pulse of your info is in all the input w story. now on to the, this is the w use my from the then ukraine prepares its troops for account her offensive. it includes training and other welfare to take back cities under russian occupation and kinds of sexual misconduct against the germans. rough ben stein,

several women until local media. they were recruited to have sex with lead singer to linda month. the i've been for the whole and welcome ukraine's military. he says it's shut down more than $13000.00 drones in the latest round of brush and strikes, targeting the keys region over not many residents of the credit and capital took shelter and subway stations off the air rate alerts was sounded across the country . the alerts for lifted keeps may, i says, no calls were made to emergency surfaces. ukrainian forces continue to prepare a long awaited counter offensive to retake cities of the east from the russians. to do that, the troops will almost certainly have to fight street by street house by house, southern wolf. it poses one of the greatest risks to soldiers as dw is my son to report. this is one of the most dangerous moments in urban warfare.

one wrong move here could be your last one goes inside and then the next the soldiers are fresh from the front line where they faced, chilling and trenches. instead of resting. they prepare for what maybe next. that was the school will have to go into doing yes. can new cons will have to store every building and there will be collaborators saboteurs, regular troops, private military groups will have to drive them out of houses, not from fields. that's why they're in this abandoned hotel. ukrainian troops may only have one chance to take back their towns from the russians. they can't afford to stay private and as a whole, but it's very important for us to take the right approach. maybe if we don't do and

we break right to them and then i'm sorry, we don't have enough people to take risks every day, except that they're ready to leave hundreds behind near one house and know what's going on with we are not ready to leave a single one, know when you're at the, when you're started, the soldiers spend 4 to 5 hours training every day, tactics, shooting, and 1st aid. they knew their lives may depend on it. we tightened the turn again as tightly as possible so that not only a finger, not even a feather can fit in between. of course you will scream all kinds of things that it hurts. let me go, but you absolutely can't loosen it. most of them will have experienced this already . unity himself was permanent, be taken out of the fight when he was injured in battle last year. his best friend died next to him through teaching,

from his experience. he's trying to help these men survive. this is what they want to avoid. the training officials don't say how many soldiers die told the number of military graves here at this hot give cemetery has doubled for the last 3 months. some of the men and women buried here for as young as 20 now this cemetery is already the final resting place for hundreds of ukrainian soldiers from the area. and people here believe that fighting at the front will intensify. so now no matter how that will turn out for ukraine, this won't be any more funerals and more grace for soldiers here in this ground. that means more families who will turn to freeze to fix automotive chuck knew many of those he's buried here.

most of all right man, i cannot comfort anyone in the sciences because the loss remains with us. well, yes, there is a great and there is a coughing we years luca because there is separation until the end of our days. when there's nothing to this doing it, but we should know who believes that what they did and are doing now pulling in is full of deep meaning me still to move on because they repeats the savior's feet, or do they prevent more deluge through their own deaf may of another family says goodbye on 3 legs on the ridge died more than 2 months ago in an eastern forest. today, he's finally buried with love and with military honors.

he won't be the last for ukraine and ukrainians. there doesn't seem to be an alternative. the we need victory later for today, we don't need peace, even if there is no victory, then there will be no reason why he moved. there will be slavery. defenders fear that more than the death itself. and so they prepare for more sacrifice the report from bucks sunday we asked him how ukrainians are coping off to a 15 month. so for so i mean war and for you learned one thing, then more certainly changes people and people are tired. people here in the capital and other ukrainian cities are tired from the, the overnight attacks and they've been been experiencing on a regular basis now for more than

a month. soldiers are tired of fighting. so if you travel the country and you talk the troops, there's someone going to be aboard a bit more upbeat about what they do about their motivations. and others are going to tell you about the hardships, how difficult it is to, to, through the fighting, how to rely on medication, for example, to stay calm or be even being able to go to sleep for a reason. right? so the task that they have to carry out of grueling some of seeing their comments friends being going into pieces. they've been asked to storm trenches or order to storm trenches and, and can kill other people. but apart from that, i don't from talking the soldiers and civilians alike. um, my impression is that morale is not broken. it's still very high. it's still quite the opposite. if you go, for example, into a cafe, anywhere here in the country viewed in keyboard and don't last reason or perhaps even in west and ukraine, close to the polish porter and talk to people there. um my, my estimate, my guess is you probably wouldn't find a single person who hasn't lost anyone or who doors,

who doesn't know anybody who lost someone or lost, lost her livelihood. so the death to the price that you create has paid so far is very, very high. and that's something that keeps people going. that's something that keeps people motivated also, then the knowledge that's if they stop resisting now, this may be the end of ukraine to exist as we know it. let's take a look now at some of the other stories making headlights. they have reinforcements of abroad in northern cost of oh, after on rest ethics. so it's blank under brief introductions. and so majority districts allowing ethnic albanian meds to be installed, that sort tensions flat france and germany have called for a new vote. they've also urged costco and so be a to de escalate the situation. us secretary of state entity blinking, says roches war against ukraine has been a strategic failure. it was speaking on a visit to nato's newest member of finland. lincoln said moscow's aggression had strengthened the alliance and made the us more results to counter any flights from

china. north korea has released images of the launch of a satellite that failed on wednesday. the rocket crashed into the sea shall be up to take off fuel gang has denounced the united nations tree for criticizing the launch. the german depends. but as the bar, as the story is on a week long visit to asia to explore strategic cooperation, he's starting a single pool where he'll take part in the shangri la dialogue key security conference. the focus is on china, which is made contested territorial claims in the south china sea. just today, one of the coming most threatening towards ty, one, the defense minister stressed the strategic importance of the region. let's see what he had to say. this did you need this in this house trying to see i'm from a like a straight or a central importance to international trade and see routes if they are not free if they are blocked, if they are threatened by anyone or anything,

that would be significant problems or that the world does not have jim and he has a strategic interest in open c roots not least here on the constraint. a key check point and global trade. hundreds chief political correspondent need a, has a, is traveling with the defense ministers. she joins us from single need, a is in germany coming rather late to the show in the to pacific of the holidays. indeed. and there's no talking around dates, but them in germany has identified this region as now vitally important. and so minutes is all beginning to show the faces here more and on a more regular basis to establish some sort of trust, to stop as dialogue with the other plan as of, from all those small different asian countries. that, of course, have completely as complex and understandings of the entire situation, but the defense minister has been busy, of course, dealing with ukraine on, with modernizing his own army at home. nevertheless, he is now spending

a week in asia to have these conversations because he says it's in germany's interest to catch up with decades of neglect and make good for that. because germany does need stable c roots, but also in this is one of his stories is a very strong messages here. germany once as many a smaller countries here in the region as possible to be partners in this attempt to uphold the rules based orders. so that there is a global understanding that voters of countries cannot just be moved by phone. and also considering getting germany being such a big sporting nation. and i also wanted to ask you about media reports today, the full of 5 digit pods, from germany. and now training pilots in china, the government in building coffee, happy about that of the nose. i notice this is quite a serious story and we had a similar story in the u. k. last awesome. what some,

some t form, a pilots engaged in similar activities as well. so there's a story that they're speaking of and such a s broke where apparently china didn't just hire these former military pilots to train chinese pilots on how to fly those planes. but also china was interested in learning about native tactics. so essentially the question, what would need to do, what would native military pilots do if china were to invade taiwan, all these things. so i know wanted to get out of these um, for my pilots now. the defense minister was asked on this trip here to comment on this. and he said that then now looking into whether or not the pilot behavior was actually against existing laws, before he starts debates about whether or not germany needs to change it slowly. but then we're already hearing from members of the german palm and back in berlin was saying, well, germany's pilots when they retire, they must only be allowed to pass on their expertise to armies of other nato allies

or strategic partners and knots to everybody around the world. because of course, this is the security risk, and this story is just the beginning, i think of another debate that the germany needs to have about just as the increase in security risk that coming on all sorts of levels. and for a very long time, the german government was not used to that sort of thing, but the debate is going to start now. need a hasa in single, thanks very much or charming. it of the, the lead singer of the popular german rock band stein is facing allegations of sexual misconduct. several women have told reporters they was systematically recruited for encounters with to linda button at the bands, concerts, hard car music, provocative lyrics over the top stage, shows all the times dying trademarks that have made the band a major international presence. the new allegations claim that those concerts also serve as a venue for sexual misconduct. one accuser alleges that

a violent sexual encounter happened at a concert. i had the feeling i couldn't see anything that it hurt or that i didn't want to or that it's too much i just couldn't speak. i was just too shocked. female fans were allegedly supplied with tickets and backstage access to encourage them to have sex with singer to linda them. that's according to research by german media organizations. multiple young women say they were asked for photos and online chat groups, or concerts. these photos were evaluated and let the invitations and allegedly to offers of alcohol and drugs. one woman says there was a whole recruitment system at work. they just manipulate the girls, so they keep coming to concerts, they keep bringing in new girls. they try to make sure no one says anything that no one gets the idea, anything's wrong with it. or i'm stein and to lend them and have not responded to

the new allegations. the band earlier denied accusations that linda menus knock out drugs and another concert related sexual encounter. or you're watching the w news coming up in the dw use asia. why the us the philippines in japan are holding joint naval drills in the south china sea. that's very involved with john. read well, world news next out with feel go. i've been for the info then. thanks for watching and have a good weekend. the one small step for a robot vacuum. one giant leap for exploiting the ocean floor. cutting edge technology is unlocking the potential of deep sea mining.