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[000:00:00;00] the the, this is the, the news coming to line from berlin. major re shuffle of ukraine's defense ministry presence. the landscape says he's replacing defense minister alexi, a resident call, calling for new approaches after a year and a half of war as follows, corruption that will have legation, which resident coughed in, not also coming up. the 1st africa climate summit kicks off in kenya is capital nairobi. now the good side of the continent could be
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a renewable energy power house, but they'll need financial support to unlock that potential. and, and, but as they get football, life seeking their new signings make life work of when young berlin ending the capital clubs, impressive and beaten home record in the process. all the goals and more coming up in sports the l m. terry martin. good to have you with us. you craze president, but a lot of me as a landscape says he is replacing defense minister alexi, rest and call, calling for new approaches a year and a half into russia's invasion. resident cost removal follows corruption obligations, which he denies. polanski did not comment on the reason for the re shuffle. he has proposed rule system overall,
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the head of ukraine's main privatization fund. as the new defense minister to oh, here's the landscape in his address for me last night. yeah, we did show what it was. does i mean the menu i decided to replace the minister of defense of ukraine? so he will exceed this because i spent 3 more than 550 days, a full scale war. for me, i believe that the ministry needs new approaches and other formats of interaction with both the military and society of large, diesel fuel floor. and this we're joined by our corresponded mex, signed in team. mike, what can you tell us about the reasons for ukraine replacing its defense minister of the rights every so alexia, definitely called, has been in charge of the ministry of defense since 2021. so he's has been here for the entire duration of russians. full scale and invasion and as such, he has played an important role, for example, when it comes to the procurement of western weapons or when it comes to link the
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groundwork for a potential future natal membership. but at the same time, under, under his leadership, the minister of defense was shaken by a number of corruption scandals. and one instance. a contract came under scrutiny in which the ministry had procured food items for soldiers at $2.00 to $3.00 times the market price. then there was another prominent case where the ministry of defense procured the winter uniforms for its soldiers from a business and turkey that turned out to be low quality. summer uniforms began at inflated prices. so the official, somewhere in the ministry. what happened profiting from this, the minister himself was never directly tied to any of this, but it certainly left a mark on his leadership. so it didn't really kind of surprised that zalinski presence wednesday last night made that announcement that he would be replaced. and this is seen as a wider attempt to drive out corruption within the ukrainian governments and
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preparation for potential the membership. talk to his max about risen, it costs likely success or risk them whoever off who is he? all right, so our present sensitivity announced you would ask for a simple matter of to take over. he is a 41 year old crime, you can talk to her. and if a former law maker himself, at the beginning of the full scale invasion, he was part of a delegation in charge of negotiations with russian representatives. at the moment he is the head of the countries main privatization from the body that is in charge of transferring the state assets to, to, to private hand. and this privatization fund prior to um, to let us take over, had been embroiled with heavy corruption. so hopes are that she would be able to, to solve the issue as he did in his career position within the ministry of defense . and in addition to that, so i can tell you that he appears to have major political backing at the moment
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he's has, he's enjoying political support by all the liberal and pro european parties in the training parliament. so his approval is very likely to help one way to make up the timing of this move max with ukraine in the middle of its counter offensive. right, so um, once he's approved by or once, once the change in leadership is approved by the ukrainian problem and this will be the highest level turnover since the beginning of a full scale invasion. of course, there are critics that are saying this is a very risky maneuver while ukraine is conducting a major counter offensive operation at the moment. but according to experts, this is not going to have any large effect on what's happening on the ground because the defense administer overseas, these military reactions. but they are essentially carried out by the, by the, by the generals,
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by the military leadership. and as far as we know at the moment it seems that they are not not being influenced by others. next, thank you very much brings update there, that was dw as much sound in teeth. so let's get a military perspective now on this from mike martin, who's the military analyst and senior fellow at kings college london. like i like to start by getting your thoughts on the dismissal of ukrainian defense minister from a military strategic standpoint. what do you think about changing horses, mid stream? good morning, terry. um, i think the strategy is all about narratives. and one of the narratives, the ukraine really, really has to take care of is corruption and bases of the west america, europe, who were giving so many weapons costing billions of dollars to ukraine. start to become more concerned about corruption. then that is something that could could
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table the supplied. and so no matter what skills of resident color we were offered in terms of the ministry skills. if there's any width of corruption, they must be seen to be dealt with very promptly ins. and strictly in the same way that the recruiting scandal and the replacement of the regional recruiters was dealt with a couple of months ago. and this is absolutely the white thing to do from the strategic point of view for you crime bell. this shuffle it the, the defense ministry comes despite ukraine, reporting a significant breakthrough in its counter offensive teases, its forces, have reached russia's 1st offensive line in the southern separation region. how big of a deal is this, mike, this i think so. russia in the south has a most areas, 3 defensive lines. the 1st one which has just been breached, has between 40 to 50 percent of the russian forces on it. so it is significant in
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that regard. the other reason that significant is because over the last 2 months, well as ukraine has been assaulting slowly, d mining, taking out russian positions on this line, the russians have used that was us. and then now starting to have to move about forces from different parts of the front line. so this part of the front line and this your view is not remembers what happened last summer. rush, i had to move forces from hockey down to us on, in the south. and that opened up, fuck, even the you guys right. was typed the entire area in september. so we might be looking at something similar to starting here. stay with this mike, we're going to take a look at some of the weapons that have helped ukraine defend itself against the russian on slaw. specifically, we're going to look at german weapons here. we'll come back to you in just a moment. now germany was slow off the mark with weapon support for ukraine. initially, berlin was reluctant to become a major military player because of the country's history. and the german army was
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simply under funded. overtime the government changed the attack. and now germany is the 2nd largest contributor of arms to ukraine, but not everything has been pledged, has been delivered. it had taken more than a year. but finally berlin was ready to get out its checkbook. the lesson, we are not using our supports. we have just decided to put together and you support package for military equipment with a total of $2700000000.00 euros oil. such a delivery of that military equipment has been slow, murmured fighting vehicles are key to ukraine's counter offensive. this summer germany pledged as many as 135 leopard, one battle tanks. but only 20 have been delivered. main vidal tank such as the leopard, one belong on the front line where they are used for close range combat and to
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provide fire cover for infantry. the, the model was 1st produced and then 196, these and has been retired in germany, but still has an edge on some of the soviet era tanks used on the russian side. last month, berlin delivered 18 newer ledford to tangs, which have significantly better protection maneuverability and fire power. germany has also delivered for the models. these infantry fighting vehicles are smaller than tanks and are designed to support the efforts in battle. german artillery systems were also delivered to ukraine in 2022. to date, berlin has supplied 14 tons to help. it's a 2 thousands. the self propelled howard servers have a firing range of up to $72.00 monitors,
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with specialty munitions. they fire from behind the lines to strike enemy positions before and advance. the german model also out performs russian systems on range precision for late, and has also supplied 5 mars to multiple rocket launch systems as part of a joint delivery with the us and the u. k, air defense systems play a significant role in protecting ukraine cities from continuous barrage of russian drones and crews. marseilles, ukraine got the 1st of 4 iris t launchers from germany at the end of 2022. it is a medium range and for red homing surface to air system that can detect incoming missiles, 250 kilometers away. the iris t munition is expensive and so the german gap hard or cheat,
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the air defense system is more cost effective when it comes to taking down drones. it has been phased out in germany, which means berlin has been able to deliver 46 cheetahs to help keep ukraine skies guns, se. so berlin has provided ukraine with significant military hardware in this war. mike, how important would you say germany support few crane is in this war. so just to pull along side, you know, american british polish shakes that try is what's keeping you crying in the fight. i'm in your package that you detailed the number of different weapon systems and some of them being used extensively today. so particularly at defense and also on henry, you know, this is a predominant, i'll tend to reward the moments of some of the other ones. the tanks and the infantry fighting beckles,
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many of those are currently being held in reserve. so that when a significant break through the line, because you can punch through with those on the vehicles unexplained and type lots of ground very quickly. so overall, the width is literally is a highly significant. so we're now over 18 months into this war mike, ukraine is gaining some momentum in his counter offensive, trying to push russian forces back. how do you see the counter offensive progressing, mike and what can we expect in the coming months? so i think what we're seeing this summer left, so this summer, excuse me, might be analogous to what we saw last summer last summer. there was a narrative that the trainings weren't taking much grounds. they've been given lots of weapons, but they weren't making any progress. and then all of a sudden we had this brake fluid hockey in september 22. and then in her son in the
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south just for christmas last year. and why did that happen? well that happened because the ukrainians had spent the summer destroying my son to just dix targeting their alternative systems and gradually wiring the russians down . and that's what we're seeing now. and particularly what we saw somewhere, not a reference that earlier was when russia started to move troops from hockey's down to us on, in the south that enabled the cravings to make it breaks. right. and that is exactly what we're saying at the moment in ukraine. so we still have several months left, 2 or 3 before winter sets, and there's plenty of time for the russian lines to have a breach of them. and the credit is to get through. i think the best way of looking at that is that the trickles that we're seeing at the moment. if you comments has had a settlement that can very easily turn into a flood very quickly for you cried mike, thank you. as always for your insights, military analyst mike martin,
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that it's catching up on some of the stories making headlines around the world today. talk soon. hi clay has swept through taiwan toppling trees while causing lance lies and flash flooding. the coastal highway collapsed disrupting traffic. thousands of households were left without power and a number of entries were reported. forecast or say, the storm we'll continue to effect weather until early tuesday of the the debt. so from a weekend to funding and the suit a needs capital car tomb has risen to at least 25 most were civilians killed in an air strike on saturday. fighting continues to rage between the army and the parent military rapids support forces. now to nairobi can use capital where the 1st africa climate summit is just open. leaders for across the continental are gathering to discuss the transition to green energy and flail priorities for the next global climate conference. later this year, africa is only responsible for around 4 percent of global emissions,
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but bears the brunt of the effects of climate change. line stopping and struggling for survival in hospital views of drought and the horn of africa has devastated the lives of these children. and the communities they come from, water is becoming increasingly suggest it's coming livestock, destroying crops and driving people from the homes. in somalia, where almost half the population remains hungry, the people are for the little relief this drought would not have happened without human driven climate change. say scientists globally temperatures of prism 51.2 degrees celsius compared with pre industrial levels. and africa is one of the fastest woman consonants responsible for less than 4 percent of global carbon
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dioxide emissions annually. more than full times less than europe. africa is being disproportionately affected by climate change. that's coming largely in the form of extreme heat, but also in heavy rain and flooding. financial losses in some of africa's poor states were found to be 4 times higher than in other countries. 3 years after extreme weather events and across the globe expenses, cold on debt relief to help these nations but african states hoping to turn that around you just from across the continent, hoping to encourage investment in climate solutions that are for cause 1st climate summit this week like in carbon sinks, renewable energy of mineral resources essential for green transition. kenya is already a sustainability. lita sourcing around 90 percent of its electricity from
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renewables. rather than being seen just as victims of global warming. li, just want to switch the narrative to bring in desperately needed funding unless africa become its own salvation. but let's cross over now to nairobi where our correspond. it. mary miller is standing by barry, what are some of the key issues at this africa climate? some yes, so he and more than $30000.00 delegates have arrived at the summit and there will be among them around 25 african has of states. and the organizers csc, the summit as an opportunity for african nations to come together to form a unified african position ahead of the cop 28th climate summit. later this year canyon president william realtor has actually made clear that africa needs to be more proactive when it comes to offering climate solutions. not only be seen as the victim,
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but actually be seen part of the solution. and as it was already mentioned in the report, kenya is anita here on the continent, a role model and also worldwide as 93 percent of its power is actually coming from the renewable energy. so yeah, organize us your hope, a very optimistic and they hope for deals with hundreds of millions of dollars to be concluded here in the next few days. so the focus is very much on solutions. a talk to us mariel about what the climate change actually means for africa and why this summit is so important. so the african continent is the continent that is most effective by climate change impact while only contributing 3 percent of global carbon emissions. also, african nations have only seen 12 percent of the finance they need in order to be able to cope with these impacts. i mean, if you look at countries such as a maya of people that are suffering, it's the worst route and for decades in the r c and democratic republic of congo.
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rep 400 people have died this year and slots, or also in 2019, when psych loan, you die killed more than a 1000 people in mozambique. people that didn't know that site and was coming. there was no forecast. there was no warning system. also, that's psyched on cost a was a huge cost for the communities and for the government around $1900000000.00 us dollars. and experts actually estimates that by 2050 climate change will cost african nations around $50000000000.00 us dollars every year. that's a huge amount of money, of course. so here african nations, look, apartments, look for investments and funding because of course, as an investor, why would you invest when there is no forecast system on the whole continent of africa, they're only around $37.00 uh radar facilities that are actually able to track whether it's a competitive with europe, there are around $345.00. so that is
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a huge difference as it can see. and of course, as an investor, why would you invest in small holder farmers if you don't know if the crop will still be there the next day or washed away by floods. now in the run up to the summit, many climate activists and g and m goes made it clear what they want from this summit to tell us more about their demands. so there are around 5 hundreds of civil society organizations that have called for uh, a reset of the climate agenda. they say that this, these partnerships that are being endorsed on the summit. and it makes clear that companies from the global north actually endorsed to just keep it useful business as usual. and so to extract african resources if african minerals without creating any added value here on the continent where it's needed. these young people, climate activist, climate, social groups, civil society members, they want to see
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a real green energy revolution that deserves that name, and they want to see african communities benefiting from it. all right, well thank you very much. that was dw, is mariel miller in nairobi covering the 1st african climate, some the styles of sports and, and bonus league of soccer or b lovesick scored 3 times in the 2nd half to beat 10 man when young berlin, 3 meal and a match between 2 champions league teams, 56 victory was all the more impressive as it ended on your own. 24, much on the run at home in the league. our be like sake of how to rebuild this summer off to the departure of key players. and it was one of the new arrivals who gave them the lead. soon off to half time, chevy see moans on line from paris as your man killed again, he's 2nd go in as many games. what has been
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a type game turned midway through the house that late tac toe lights were red, constantly owns kevin fall in the hunting finds, made the feelings clear. they needed that. you know, he could really complain it to light sick until the last 5 minutes to really make the extra man counts. substitute benjamin cisco, another new face bright, clear to double his side leads and it was the same price he made to gain complete the safe moments later. linking up c probably with danny own i. before serving the coolest of heads. the monitor rose, a rebuild is looking solely light, say, consign duty on to best uh splendidly guard and defeats in 18 months. a real statements have been changed and sundays of the bonus league game 9. talk 5 foot
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score late to deny cologne their 1st league when at the season. visitors cologne took the lead just before half time. thanks to a penalty from florida on kinds. but frank really hit back with 3 minutes to go leveling the game through substitute news and can cool the draw of, maintains frank for its own beaten start to the season. and here's a look at the full set of results for match day 3. when young berlin, new meal 3 hot light, no 0 lives who lives like 3 frankfurt, 11 uh by and came from behind the big glove box. there were big wins for labor crews and stood guard. and brandon hoffman. hon got the better of both board and the mattress in osborne endorsement. both finished to all. let's see how that leaves the table after 3 games, labor crews, and buy and maintain their perfect start. the season to move clear on 9 points start meant will be disappointed to languish and 9th. already at the bottom,
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newly promoted dumpster funding lives. tough in the top division their bottom and without a points and black box will be alarmed by their sluggish star to the season. in formula one racing ripples all conquering max 1st often has one the italian grand prix, clinching a record 10th street. when in the process, the dutchman overcame strong resistance from pulse that are call assigns to move a whopping 145 points clear at the top of the drivers standings. the tell you in colors, split the sky at mountains, the carlos sites a delighted local variety, funds by pink max pushed up and 2 pole position but the 1st step and was snapping at his heels from the very 1st corner. the spaniard managed to keep the dutchman at bay for 14 laps before the inevitable happened. sites locked his brakes
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going into the 1st. she came and flushed up and ruthlessly exploited the mistake to take the lead signs then. so another red bill car fly by on lot 46. that's the 1st step is to make says you perez, moved to 2nd with to meet shawn mcclare, breathing down his neck. the spaniards doggedly hung on to 3rd pleading with his team to let him continue on, wharton tires. that's what they call pushed up and rolled home, taking the checkered flag from perez for the record breaking when. facts that might see ted rice has a value on your own right now. that's a, that's history. while science cooling on to 3rd to the delights of the whole funds . but once again, it was pushed up in state. the dutchman is streets ahead of his rivals, with a 3rd drivers, championship, seemingly inevitable. you are watching dw news,
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just reminder of the top story we're following for you this. our ukraine's present below them is the landscape says he is replacing defense minister alexia rosen. call with out giving a reason for the re shuffle. he has proposed with sounds, bullet ross and opposition. politician from crimea as the new defense minister of next it's 77 percent show focusing on africa's youth terry. martin, thanks for watching.
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