[000:00:00;00] the, [000:00:00;00] the, this is the, the news coming to live from berlin. ukraine says it has developed a weapon to strike targets deep inside russia. presidents lensky makes claims about a new capability, apparently, referencing a recent attack which damaged several russian military transport planes. 700

kilometers from ukraine's board also coming up desperate ukrainians are trying to get out of russian occupied territory. the want it to and you as soon as possible, would you want to go home? would you send me to breathe freely there? we find out how some are making the risky escape back to areas under keeps control and the military couldn't get both has led to the countries suspension from the african union. now get bonds. opposition party is calling on the sunset and power back to civilians. we go live to leave the bill to talk to an opposition spokesperson, the hello. i'm terry martin. thanks for joining us. since rush i launched, it's war on ukraine cube has been pushing as western allies to supply ever more advanced military equipment. but in a video address on thursday night ukraine present blogging me as a landscape boasted of what could be a game changer in

a long range weapons made in ukraine, which is the last the claims has hit a target 700 kilometers away off president rarely comments on ukrainian attacks inside russia, he appeared to allude to a devastating strike earlier this week. the attack of damage several military transport planes. and the western reason of this call, roughly 700 kilometers away from the ukrainian border. another target you ukraine's mysterious new long range weapon would put within striking distance moscow. raising the stakes significantly as keep tries to bring the war home to russians or more, we can talk now to military analyst, marina mirand, it with kings college london. right? what kind of weapon could zalinski be referring to? hello, terry. um, well, it could be a drone, so there are a couple of weapons that would come in question. the 1st one is being that you j 22

drain, which is a long range drive in which has been allegedly used on this on the strikes was in moscow. the 2nd drone is the so called beaver drone, which has even a longer range. so it's up to 1000 kilometers. so there are 2 to potential candidates and then there is a search driving which experts try to identify in the strikes or moscow. however, a little is known about that through a drone, but we already have to good options which would fit the descriptor. or russia, of course, is continuing to bombard ukrainian. you ukraine with heading targets all over the country. how is ukraine under these conditions able to develop sophisticated weapons slowly? it is difficult for ukraine to do so. and it is indeed a miracle that the russians still haven't found the factories,

whereas those drugs are being produced. apparently as a b with writing has been in design for several years, but it hasn't been used until the russian invasion of ukraine. now the one thing would be operation security, which is very good. the other thing would be protocol is there is some support when it comes to driving design as well as spare parts needed to make so straightens. so we, we really don't know, but it could be that in ukraine is getting some support when it comes to development. and when it comes to production of such drains, the cranes military intelligence chief is claiming that the attack on call so far into russian territory was actually carried out from russian territory. what do you make of that? as well would have to understand that this were also has an informational dimension

. and i think, given the political city ation after the attack, the russian side has claimed that the west was involved in helping ukraine to conduct that attack. specifically, the baltic states, which would have been used as a launch platform for the price. and therefore, it might be a way to confuse the russians and to take responsibility away from any supporters of ukraine. this is why it's important to say ukraine has the capability it has its own drones ukrainian made the west has nothing to do with that. and the attacks have been launched either from the board during regents or from russia to lead russia astray because the ukrainian side, obviously doesn't want to give out the launch positions from where it would be launching the threatens to strike the russians. because it's easy for the russians do, then the reverse engineer, it's on track where is that you crazy? and so we're launching the threats from and then turn on their electronic warfare

systems. and ukraine scored some success there in destroying those russian transport planes in call. do you think? we'll see more of that moving forward as it is a possibility, given the price of drones, they're much cheaper than using missiles. ukraine doesn't have any long range missiles or at least those that would fit to bill. therefore, the use of drones is both efficient. it doesn't risk the loss of human life from the ukraine inside. it also removes and your responsibility from the western backers, because you are a ukrainian may drones i used according to ukrainian sources, that it is much cheaper than um, sending something like a storm shuttle missile, which would cost um $3000000.00 us dollars was a potential political fallout, so i think given the fact that the comprehensive is going slow leak,

we might be seeing more attacks like that are in the thank you very much. that was marina me. wrong with kings called each one. thank you for having me. a sense rochelle launch is full scale invasion of ukraine. millions of ukrainians have found themselves living under occupation and subjected to russian propaganda more than 18 months later. many ukrainians are still looking for ways to escape occupied territories. one way is through enemy land going into russia and then entering ukrainian controlled areas that the cult to love cub pop rothko crossing and the country's ne, they're humanitarian core door lies between the ukrainian soon, the region and the russian build garad region. the they'll be use abraham visited reception center near the crossing point and spoke with those who fled one side of a war to the other. they have

a long road behind them. when russia attacks ukraine in february of last year, they suddenly found themselves under occupation. now they are back on ukrainian controlled land after a journey that last 2 days and 2 nights, a fashionable and it was scary at their check points on a ski, the russians, and they do not consider us ukrainians of human beings. we didn't know what to expect from them, the change and that you. so the woman checking passports spoke aggressively to us, and that's just not see. like ella endured a lot under occupation. her team son had to flee after russians beat him up for expressing pro ukraine opinions. her husband could not find treatment for an injury and had to stop working. then russian authorities threatened to take her 2 small children away to a boarding school and pressured them to get russian passports. that's when i left field, she had to do everything to get away and borrowed money to flee. nemo nimble him on

. we didn't have any money to leave earlier. we were ukrainians at heart. i've lived here for 40 years. i cannot simply forget that to become a russian and swear allegiance to them, but a salary and something might between 50 and a 150 people, enter ukrainian control territory through the cold at the last couple. crawford crossing every day. only ukrainians are allowed and if they don't have someone waiting for them, they're brought here. volunteers give them food, a police to rest and make a plan. the ukrainian border control also screens arrivals to read out potential saba tours. this volunteer tells me that people coming from places like the knots, which has been under russian sponsored control since 2014, are especially influenced by putting this propaganda. when they have to do much physics, it may stupid hands of the americans a minute. like to see the wars pier politics,

can something sinks the top of the crate and safety doesn't exist so that it really means that it's run by nazis flu. but mostly they just need help. after leaving almost everything behind for people leaving occupied territories, this is the last leg of their journey back to their lives. they bore trains to key of hoping that whatever is waiting for them there is better than what they've left behind. i'm gonna show you some of the fun and the, the russians treat it as bad today. today. they constantly put pressure on people. they force people to switch to lesson documents, so i'm to work for them. but that way, so let me try to wide pointed this is good use of i want it to end as soon as possible. i want to go home. i want to breathe freely there. what the, what are my plans? you, we were promised to aid with housing level because we just don't know what is it.

maybe we'll live somewhere on the floor. where's the level that usually the officials here tell us around $22000.00 ukrainians to flood occupation since we started the invasion. even if their 1st days living under ukrainian flag are difficult. authorities hope more and more will make the choice. people in this train has made, it's now to get ball, and the african union has suspended gallons. membership after military officer seize power there on wednesday. the military has closed, the boarders, and named the chief of the republican guard is head of a transitional. government or leaders have condemned wednesdays to which ended more than 5 decades of the bundle families rule. governments opposition party has asked qu, leaders to recognize its candidates as the winter of last week's election. for more now, we are joined by alexandra pongo. she is the spokes person for about on the asa who was the main opposition candidate in governments. reason presidential election. she joined just from

a good balance capital leap with them. thank you very much for being with us miss pond. what's the position of your opposition alliance on the coup? uh, good day, terry. um that the position or physician side is uh, eventually against the crew. as me, so one of those i said, these are democrats, you can not a cushion, a cool in galvan. therefore he has been asking to the military, that meeting surveys section 2, a and over the follow back the civilians. but that's not the things aren't really looking like that right now. the leaders of the cube announced the general breeze in grandma will be sworn in. is transitional president, next week? do you support that move?

of course not as i say we cannot question. therefore we do not question every state they are meeting right now. that is actually. 7 kind. 2 it's almost when you 3 is a about to have a meeting. they have cold and a suicide, the a seasonal society, the cold, the president of your position, and to, to, to have a meeting and to discuss about the next step of your position regarding the situation. or even contact with the hunter at the moment. with the, with the people who have led the crew of the military leaders who are now in control of the country. are you in dialogue with them up to now we have not received any invitation any goals. um, we will think they are going to do that because they called yesterday the businesses, the, the businesses they needed was the big with business to be businesses yesterday.

and we believe that they are going to do the wrong tour of all the all the positions is the start of the, the civil society, the religious group, to have a discussion with them. so we will thing in the nearly nearly hours or days that they are going to come to us and discuss with us. so you're hoping that your candidate will be put in charge as an off opposition group. you called on the international community to put pressure on the front to, to, to hand bout power back to civilians and effectively your alliance. do you see that happening any time soon? i as we can see that happening because we believe that government has shown the um, uh, a site of the population of dublin has shown the sight of them showing that they want to have liberty. they want to have the worker see. therefore, i believe that the military can see that if they don't follow the wheel of

government needs the population of companies, they might have them against them. therefore, they have to work to make sure that the democratic a sign of gum on the police back that the we would be happy that they would pull out of, of the presidency. but now we want to work on government. therefore we need to move . so we to an over so that all the projects are all the plans that the missed on those the, and many of the opposition had we can walk on this and did go on a better side, the happiest i miss tanya, thank you very much for speaking with us that was alexandra pongo spokesperson of the main opposition candidate in the nga bone. and she was speaking to us from labor vill, thank you. thank you. now let's have a look at some other stories making headlines around the world. today. thailand's

king has cut the prison sentence, a former prime minister tucked in general up from 8 years to one else did. leader had applied for a royal pardon upon his return to thailand after 15 years and sell bikes. i'll talk to in was, can group convicted of graft and abuse of office charge and see clients are politically motivated footprints and says in mongolia in the 1st ever people visit to the nation is troops through the buddhist majority. country is a gesture of support for the country's tiny bit growing catholic community. only around one and a half 1000 mongolians identifies catholic out of a population of over 3000000 in the us to former leaders of the right wing extremist group. proud boys have been sentenced to prison for their role in the january 2021 capital attack. zachary rail was given 15 years just hours after joseph bigs received

a 17 year sentence when the longest handed out in the capital riot cases. germany's economy is struggling to consecutive quarters of declining output spells recession and g. d. p has stagnated, at the level of the previous 3 months. the important economic indicators are pointing in the wrong direction and economists are worried, not just economists. ordinary germans are worried too, and pessimistic about the future. which spells trouble for politicians and fears of a far right search. germany is once again being called the sick man of europe, in the press and with economist concern as mounting that the countries current economic slump. is it just the fluke germans are well aware and the tad pessimistic a new poll shows that 70 percent of germans agree that the economy isn't doing well and almost have think that in one years time things will be looking even worse.

recent data points to a stagnating economy in the 2nd quarter, which failed to recover from a recession earlier in the year. high prices brought by geopolitical tensions and the effects of the war and ukraine are impacting businesses and households by somebody who left it. what i see is that people are saving money because they are afraid of the rising prices because this month so you can see it in the consumption level. so it's all isn't. so goals are concerned is too big of what i do. think about it and, and then when i listen to charge the shots and i can hear his words like the face and the global as germans increasingly worry about the well being of the economy. they are also getting more and more frustrated with their government's almost 80 percent of those polled say they are unhappy with the government's work so far. a 10 point increase compared to september of last year on all 3 parties in the

governing coalition. the business friendly f t p, the social democrats and the greens are seeing the approval rates dropping. but there is one group that is currently profiting both from the economic uncertainty and from the dissatisfaction with those in charge. it's the far right and the party is bucking the trends and keeps rising in the pools. now, sitting comfortably in 2nd place, even ahead of the social democrats, the party of chancellor on up shorts of more or less. i'm joined now from munich by economists on this pica he's the head of the eco institute for a macro economics and surveys. that's a division of the eco institute. one of germany's largest economic think tax. welcome to the program under. if you've seen the survey results in our report, germans are pessimistic about the country's economic future. the economist magazine is once more reaching for the sick man of europe label for germany. what's your

assessment to yeah, i'm not sure if i would agree with the sick men of europe assessment right now. and this was a term coined 25 years ago and then the problems were much larger. unemployment was much higher. but what is true is that we are currently in economic the nothing in good shape. uh we are probably in the recession going into a deeper recession. and there are a lot of various about the future of the economic future and, and also, and there's a lot of uncertainty. and one thing in germany, it's the inflation rising. prices has always been the big issue in the, in the german history. and in the back in the minds of the people. and so i think the rice and inflation and the recent years is also something which is leading to the 3 thoughts. what would you say are the most important factors holding back

economic growth in germany? and there are a lot of reasons so, well, jeremy has a big problem with or had already a big problem with skilled labor. but now it's a shortage of, of overall labor, even unsecured labor. and this has started in depend demik, when many people who are working and low paid to jobs, they found different shops in different industries that, that roast doing the pen dynamic and but they had no missing and other chops and some people also left germany. other came but they did were not so well integrated into labor market. so in generally we have this shortage of labor in, in germany. and we also have problems with supply chains. and there are lots of disruptions there are, of course, the, the, the war in ukraine and the problems with china and so on that, that lead to all these problems. so it's the, the current recession is most of the supply side driven. that is, it's

a shortage of labor or shortage of supplies. and this is harming the trend and manufacturing industry, which was not in a good shape already before the pen demik. so this declining trend started in 20172018 germany has the luxury cover. the unlike other countries, now many companies in germany are complaining about high energy prices. how big a role does the end of cheap russian gas play in german manufacturing and the problems that german manufacturing is, are facing right now. us. and it's another increase in to, to these problems. so as i said, the problem started before and 2018 1st thing, the automotive industry. it started with this, the diesel scandal, then the, the trade towards, so to say with the us in china and so, and then came the pen dynamic. then there was the shortage of supply of important ingredients and then the rising in a t prices which affect the,

the energy intensive industry, the chemical industry especially. but not so much the rest of the industries because there's import substitution going on. so okay, the chemical industry is producing more into us and german other companies are importing from the us so that it's not such a big deal in trend or but for, especially for the chemical industry this appropriate. what would you say under this is the most important thing that the german government should be doing to overcome the difficulties it's facing on the economic front right now. so the government announced on what on wednesday their, their program and there are a lot of good things in there. so increasing incentives for investment for innovation. lowering, tucked texas for firms investing in infrastructure due to high station reducing veracruz, the speeding up planning a stuff pro checked, making it easier to invest in germany. these type of things,

this all sounds good. the question is, when will it be implemented and it needs to be implemented fast. andrea cycle from the info institute. thank you very much. thank you. and we can also talk to our chief political editor, indicate a cup now. now nichoela, we've heard what an economist thinks about the go german government, what it should be doing, the 3 parties governing germany and a coalition together, it just had a 2 day retreat. was any of that material that we just heard about all our agenda? absolutely. it was, it's not to sit very much in the public domain, the debate about the concern that the economy, it could not just weekend, but that it could head towards dare i say the word of recession. and that's why that's also in the general public debate. so we sold at 10 point plan that includes tax breaks and we're seeing new polling coming out with

a large proportion of demons concerned about the economy. in fact, that is the top warry of germans with ukraine having dropped to 5th of space that so that's a very different outlook on where the government needs to perform. we've seen an attempt to, to produce a list, but as mentioned, timing is of the essence. okay, the government is not very popular with german voters at the moment, but the par, right, a at the party is doing very well in the polls. it's hoping to benefit from the in fighting of the current government. how is the safety approaching this? i guess it's safe to say that the ac is already profiting a great deal from the in fighting with the opinion. polls showing that the left. so the top has very low popularity ratings. we see that that's not the reads listed positive. the social democrats, the tonsils policy, is the top policy,

but the opposition see to you. that's the black column. where is the a if d, which is blue, is really a rising and not us nationwide around about 20 percent, but more worrying. so in is some eastern states like sucks and the where the all retail elections coming up next year, where they are hovering around about 30 percent. and that is something what, what i saw it's needs to prove that he can align his government to deliver on those key worries, like the economy a to post back on the far right. if the, which has, we discovered the whole migration issue and more concrete, the new legal proposal here to allow for a double citizenship now that loan to your campaign against that this coming week. so this seems to be once again a hot button topic here where the f d c, some political mileage became. oh thank you very much. our chief political editor,

mikaela, coastal there scroll watching dw news. just reminder of the top story we're following for you this our ukraine is claimed to have developed a weapon, tape full of striking targets deep inside brush up. present polanski seem to reference a recent attack using the weapons which damage several, brushing military transport planes, 700 kilometers from new cranes to the point is up next

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