and the, this is dw news live from berlin, germany resumes direct arms exports to saudi arabia. it approves the delivery of $150.00 iris t guided missiles to the kingdom. the 1st such sale since berlin van weapons deliveries after the killing of journalist involved kush of g. also coming up, the world health organization says that the situation in gaza is to jane dress for enough, a to reach civilians. conditions are increasingly desperate for nearly 2000000 people. displaced by the conflict and ecuador sinks into crisis,

the president says that his country is at war with drug gang. after a wave of deadly violence, the storming of a tv station and the kidnapping of police officers, plus, with ukraine's military running short of mail recruits a growing number of women are choosing to get arms training. we report from a training camp that is preparing them for potential combat roles. the . i'm sarah kelly. welcome to the program. berlin has authorized the export of missiles to saudi arabia, ending restrictions that were introduced in 2018. the delivery of $150.00 iris t. air to air missiles to re are, is a major shift in policy for chancellor all off shots us government for land halted, arms exports to the kingdom after dissident journalist jamal, cuz so jake was killed in the saudi consul. it in his tumble. us intelligence found

that saudi crowned principal, how many been so mind sanctioned his murder dw political correspondent, julia. so deli, has more on why germany is resuming arms. x 4th to saudi arabia. now we've heard from german for administer analynn, a bad book saying that a big role in this change of position from the german government is the way that saudi arabia behaved and conducted itself regarding israel in the last a few months since the conflict between israel and thomas, a bad book said that sonia reagan has had a constructive approach to israel and the last few months. and that seems to have convinced the german government of the reliability of the saudi arabian government . also, we've heard from the economy minister of a topic saying that, so you are really a, has a particular role in the region that it can bring stability to the region. and

these are all arguments that a point to the fact that germany see saudi arabia as reliable and with the country improving the sale of iris team missiles are other deliveries now, likely to follow to saudi arabia as well. at the moment we officially confirmed delivery is of iris to use. these are missiles that can be surface to air or air to air. we know that sonya reba uses them from aircraft from the euro fighter jets. and the saudi government has said that they have been used, for example, to shoot down drones coming from a for the health reports of yemen. and we know also regarding the euro fighters, these are jets that are produced by a court of european countries, including germany. the u. k, spain and italy and germany had been blocking and has been blocking the delivery of also these euro fighters, the saudi arabia. but we've heard from german chancellor all f shows, but also for minister under the babel that they personally wouldn't be in favor of

also resuming deliveries of euro fighters to saudi arabia. this hasn't been confirmed yet, but it seems that it might be on the cards. now remind us because um, you know, this is quite a big policy chain to remind us of why germany originally started stopping to export arms to saudi arabia. so this happened in 2018 after the murder of a, sorry journalist john monica shoji. and in that context, germany decided that it didn't want to export the weapons to saudi arabia anymore. but this was also because a saudi arabia has been involved in the war in yemen since then. and germany has a longstanding policy of not delivering weapons to countries that are in active conflict. now this policy has already been put in beside for ukraine. for example, in germany has been delivering weapons to ukraine. and as the conflicts in yemen

seems to be possibly coming to a close, it seems like germany is also ready to deliver saudi arabia weapons in this context to the w political correspondent, julia south. lee, thank you. the world health organization says that not enough aid is reaching civilians in the gaza strip. intensified fighting in northern and central gaza has also halted several deliveries of medical supplies and fuel to hospitals. israel says that its troops are trying to root out a mazda militants who carried out deadly terror attacks in israel 3 months ago, or grabbing all the can from a truck west of kansas city. bags of flour, boxes of canned food. throughout the territory, gods in space, mass, hunger, and disease. the un says $1.00 and $4.00 are starving. the majority of guys, this population has been displaced at least once since the start of the war. most

depend on cross border aid for survival. those displaced say they are living in absolute desperation lives and we have lost hope. we'd be listening to the news for $98.00 days hoping that the war will end. but there is no hope. all we see is this difficult situation. we're in, we have no water electricity, but since water was scarce, we can only shar once a month. so it's taking a total in our mental health and their disease is spreading everywhere. pressure to allow more aid and to gaza is mounting on israel. the opening of a crossing at the israel egypt border has not significantly increase the rate of deliveries. a trucks are often delayed waiting for security checks. but israel's military says it is now increased its capacity for screening.

we are ready and willing to facilitate as much humanitarian aid as the world will give, especially essentially like foot medicine and shelter. we do security checks on humanitarian aid trucks for weapons. before the enter goes, we have increased our screening capacity considerably. that even when a gets through distribution is another problem in the absence of security guarantees and intensified offensive around hospitals. in northern guys, a vital medical supplies can get to people who need it. most it means that hospitals don't have to. it means that the patients don't have food, it means that i'm to tell emphasize the care for the patients. you an agency say humanitarian corey doors for aid are needed now to save lives. earlier i spoke with christian lynch. my are from the world health organization and

asked him whether his staff were noticing a difference on the ground after the as rarely army said it would facilitate more aid and to gaza. so the willingness is, of course great, but no, we have not seen any changes on the ground. the words have yet to um, translate into action on the ground. the problem for us is the any permission. and so any 8 coming in or you back, you use going out is way to talk. it cannot be plan comfortable. i sit for days waiting to get in convoys sit inside guns, and one thing to go to the north and of waiting for permission is also everything was planned as, according to the instructions, given the talk situation. that's the problem with dealing with. and of course, in a, in a short amount of time and a short window, there can never be enough to help brought the people even if the roads are then clear. also text cleo bombs and leo the read in order to bring material it is

offered up and so goes on. what is most urgently needed at the moment. that's a tricky questions. nearly everything i mean, 1st of all it right now it's really full. didn't want it for the people, people, patients, including the patients on the operating tables and then right off the surgery, a begging for water. and so that fueled it needs fuel, of course, to uh, to run the hospitals, to run the generate as a, to run ambulances. and then it needs a lot of medical equipment from simple bandages and wound dressings to anesthetics, uh, in order to have um, concessions to be done on the anesthesia and not without um do anything in between . so what this is there, it's there and that's important. so it is ready, it's outside, all the un agencies are ready to deal with the con was as your picture, so a miles long, partly waiting outside. it needs to get in that procedure needs to be speed it up. um and then of course the inside goes at the distribution is crucial. a meantime on

a visit to the west bank, the us is top diplomat has reaffirmed washington support for a palestinian state secretary of state. anthony lincoln said that he had productive talks with the palestinian president monkwood abbas about reforming his government . the u. s. one, save or formed palestinian authority to govern garza after israel's war with him. boss abbas said that casa was an integral part of palestinian territory and called for an international peace conference. germany's foreign minister and our leader bab off is 11 on meantime, where she has been holding talks with care, take her prime minister and not give him a coffee. they discuss the tensions between israel and the she i love and he's has the militia bare bach also met with you and observers, while visiting german soldiers stationed on a frigate in the bay road harbor, quito, steinberg from the german institute for international and security affairs,

has more about blinking and bare box visit to the region as well as i think that the visits by secretary blinking of more important than the visits of the german 4 in minnesota. and mainly because we do know that there are in direct talks going on between the united states and his by law to level these government. and that's got the impression that the german 4 administer is assistant assisting these thoughts. pacebutler is for the american government, tries to convince his ball out there this, it wouldn't be a good idea to intervene in this war and perhaps even to withdraw some of its course. it's not really tiny river in order to avoid a conflict in the coming months and years, put it into context. as far as how effective kennedy's talks with the lebanese government. be. i mean, where did the,

has the official stand on all of this as well? it's, it's impossible for our western governments to talk to his bottle, not because it is listed as a terrorist organization. but there are ways and means to talk to his brother. he's by law school intermediaries. and of course, the lebanese government of which is paula is a, is a vice of part is eh, he's a good media. and the problem is that his bottom line is not only 11 east organization, but it's in the wrong. and the client, we do not know exactly who calls the shots in this relationship right now, but i've got the impression that he's by law and he wrong both agreed that they do not want a logic conflict. if sufficiently, for both by the he's raised, there is of course the danger escalation. and that was cato steinberg from the german institute for international and security affairs. some other stories making

news, us and british naval forces say that they have shot down a barrage of missiles and drones fired by who's the rebels and the red sea breton calls it the largest attack by the human based militants. and since they began targeting commercial ships in november, the who fees say that they are blocking is rarely shipped or those headed to the nation in response to israel's war and gaza. are you printing present? envelope numbers zalinski has made an unannounced visit to lithuania, kicking off a tour of the 3 baltic states. he again warranted the trio nations that they are not saved from a potential russian invasion unless prudent is stopped. zalinski is also discussing ukraine's plans to join nato and the you russian opposition, leader alexis of all the has appeared in a video for the 1st time since his secret transferred to an arctic prison to remotely attend a court. hearing. the kremlin critic was moved in december and is serving a 19 year sentence for extremism and fraud. violence

in ecuador has exploded into what the country's president has called an internal armed conflicts against drug games. he has declared 22 narco groups as terrorist organizations and has ordered the army to neutralize them. at least 8 people have been killed and various attacks. the us says it's extremely worried by the violence . china has closed its embassy and conflicts in the country. gangsters have at least a wave of terror in ecuador, a series of coordinated attacks. the government is struggling to contain heavily arm narco storm to tv station in ecuador, the largest city, quite a keel during a live new show mass gunman. so they were there to warn ecuadorian not to mess with the mafia. the attack was swift and violent. but out of the shot for one of our camera man in the leg broke the arm of another

one fired bullets, they use their weapons in size. one tv station employee who wants to conceal his identity, shared what he saw is almost remember that we are in the news room. as all of a sudden, i saw one of my colleagues with a terrified look on his face. then he said they're coming to kill us. they've already got inside the t v station. and then i heard gunshots and a lot of noise. and then what i did was, was get out of the area where the editor was. i grab my phone and i started running like crazy towards the safety. ask to speak to someone. about 30 minutes after the government appeared, police could be seen entering the tv station. the gangsters were captured. but the attack ecuadorian is horrified. unbelievable. it's the 1st time this has happened in this country. we leave everything to mister preston to the hand of god

. mister president, you have to put a firm hand on this because he takes a step back. it'd be worse. shops and schools are shut type of door in say the prevailing atmosphere is one of 3 year thousands of law enforcement personnel are coming. the country for notorious gang boss aldosterone, macias, known by his alias, vito, he's the king pin. last to narrows one of the most powerful cartels in ecuador veto apparently fled a high security jail on sunday. authorities say a 2nd major gang leader and other inmates subsequently escaped from another prison . penitentiaries have been the focal points, the unrest there have been incidents and at least 6 prisons around the country. police officers guarding the jail, been kidnapped,

and their reports of explosions near the homes of representatives of the judicial system. eco door has been racked by a surge of violence in recent years, tied to drug trafficking, including homicides and kidnappings. as the country will be in a state of emergency for 60 days, during which officials can suspend people's rights and mobilize the army in places including prisons. and earlier i spoke with going to my whole from the german institute for international and security affairs. he told me what has led to the situation in ecuador, who has become a new app for the global direct trait, and this has flooded so the country is columbia and cocaine. and it's the same time blood trip has been coming to new highs due to the conflicts between the fragmented structure of the drug cartels in the country as the interests of mexican caught,

those 2 influence what this is happening in the country. so we are in this situation, was that now on the news, the decisions of the president, the bills and the military be on the straits and the quite sure that the violence will come up. because the fragmentation of all the different, the direct a call totes will make up a new wave of violence. german commuters are facing massive disruption because of a 3 day strike called by the train drivers union that has led the main rail operator deutscher bon to cancel thousands of trains running only a few emergency services. it is urgent people to postpone non essential travel. strike is the latest move and a long running dispute overpay and working hours. he'd have used any gram is ad

berlin central station with more. i asked her if any trains are running yes, there are some trains running, but not many of them are operated by deutsche bank at this platform. it's mainly private train companies that are operating services with trains going out to the neighboring state of brandenburg. we did see one intercept to you express, train a run by don't too bad heading to digital doors. and many of the people that were getting on that train told me that they've been delayed for hours. and not many of them got much information to told over a few terrorists who told me that they got a notification on and ask them their phone, but no real, no real other options for them to man i spoke to visiting from ireland, told me that they were frantically looking at flights to try to get to where they need to go. know, a farmer strike is also causing travel disruption across the country. thousands of farmers have set up road blockades and

a planned week long protest. they're angry over government plans to slash agricultural subsidies. lawmakers have withdrawn some of the proposed costs, but farmers are frustrated with chad, so old off schultz and his coalition who are struggling to fix a budget mess. nothing can stop them. neither the early our, nor the cold. thousands of farmers in germany want to paralyze the country for a week in christ to an hours drive from berlin. they've been joined by tradesman hall years and private individuals. they are protesting against the governments grant austerity cuts, but they have much more at stake. thoughts if you are the of a few don't spill top over the years. we've already had to accept cuts in agricultural subsidies. recently. we've increased bureaucracy. what's happening there is on speak about we have to deal with cost increases on cost, increases for personnel, machinery and energy by the machine, by the energy. for farmers,

agricultural policy has been going in the wrong direction for years. there are no fe used with rising inflation and energy prices. it's clear who's to blame for that misery on the traffic like government sees just crap. that's what i'm saying. this features not just about subsidies but also about migration climate and gender policy. for many, the government is just an object of hate. i'm just being a chess game begins with a pool and the game goes on until the king full turner, that the right wing extremists also want to take advantage of this and to the government moot. that is why they are supporting the protest in some places loudly hear more in the background, then it starts traffic jams form everywhere. as the tractor procession makes its way to puts down the seat of the red book state government,

the crowd becomes increasingly angry. they want the head of the regional cabinet to come out onto the streets, which he does and distances himself from the policies of the federal government, even though he belongs to the same party as the tensor. is kind of wondering if you can any advise the federal government to complete the withdrawal and the cons. that would be my 1st piece of advice. my 2nd piece of advice would be to seek dialogue, yellow, to little naz protests. and those locates and rail strikes. could be on the cards, the german government is facing a winter of discontent. ukraine is in need of more troops and discussions are underway about changes to the way soldiers are mobilized. a new draft of bill would increase penalties for people who dodge the draft and make more citizens eligible for conscription. one source that has so far remained largely unpacked as women. around $42000.00 women are currently estimated to be serving and the ukranian army

and increase of 40 percent since 2021, the year before russia's full scale invasion. now at least $5000.00 of those are reported to have been deployed to the front are currently lemon cannot be conscripted and have to actively enlist if they wish to serve. new training camps are offering women opportunities to prepare for combat rules. as dw soon you fall in the car reports taking a look at the enemy for the building to a basic goals in fi um an urban combat in the photos somewhere on the outskirts of keys, only for women. on this, the caea is a film producer and keep it over so she's never touched a rifle before the show. it's the knowledge skills are very relevant and you can't, we don't know what could come next and all the work draft gone for years. go ahead

and so women can also be useful on the front focus more in particular, i sent a full and honest a see, a hasn't decided whether she would sign up to join the army like she like many others here wants to be capable. tatiana son is in the army. she wants to be ready to join him, to look into something for him. fortunately, running out to fight to the throne nelson of people and resources. so we have to be prepared for you. uh, all the volunteers from the army awful women, jo listens on handling the rightful though and put them to the pieces to the piano. hits organize the course as well as taking parked by 2 ladies. everyone has different reasons for being here, of course. and people have traumatized that so many women come from others to chase or there are women who will under occupation just these 2 nights. women bring some clothes to move like therapy as minutes is lose those who come on to overcome that

fancy stuff. the whole digital boyd, so like on the 26 year old fields manager wants to join a combat unit in the army and have a choice of the budget. also. i'm still learning trying to call it the 1st time i had to shoot live rounds. but my panic depending upon you all the same, but now i feel comfortable that you are as booking. she has a personal reason for joining the military at home in keys on the shows us the husband on 3. he's been missing on the frontlines over to you, or her brother was also fighting and it's also missing and believes the russians have them. she spent months trying to find out what's happened to them. now though, i know has decided to become a soldier and i've sent you a little bit, i understand that if i don't do anything, then i will fall into despair and it will only get worse. so i think i'll be able

to achieve something there. and i hope that i will get some information should towards that question for much. she's done her research on our plans to join the ukrainian armies towed assault applegate, which she says already has women. long as the thing, maybe it's been all that. yeah, i'm not afraid to die. i'm afraid not to find my husband and brother daughters return back in the forest. it's clear that there's a long road ahead says which on it will be very difficult for all this to work out . a girl like me who is a civilian and who has no experience and wants to become a combat soldier, i will really need to prove myself to which a determination is for them. and who am is increasingly stead a quick reminder of our top story. here on dw news, germany has resumed direct arms exports to saudi arabia, delivering the iris team guided missiles. it's the 1st such sale since berlin banned weapons deliveries after the killing of journalist democracy of cheap in

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