the the business dw news live from berlin. ballad counting in pakistan goes into overtime. former prime minister knob i shall reef, claimed his party has the largest number of votes and calls on other parties to work with him. but all lies are on the account if that is still ongoing. we will bring you the latest. also coming up, controversial americans presenter tucker carlson. sit down with the russian president, vladimir putin will have the highlights for improvements. first one on one interview to western media. 2019 and us president joe biden takes aim at israel's campaign in gaza condo cover response

in new jersey. regardless, trip has been up over the top. those remarks coming as us officials warn is real. they won't support plans for a major military operation in the southern city of rasa. at this time. plus german chancellor all loc schultz arrives in washington for talks with joe biden. they are set to discuss the 2 major crises dominating world politics. the conflicts currently raging in gaza and ukraine. the . i'm sarah kelly. welcome to the program. former prime minister novel sheriff is claiming victory impact the stance general election announcing his already has the

most seats and will begin talks to form a coalition. government boats are still being counted a day after polls closed in an election marred by violence and to allegations a vote. ranking sharia military back to pakistan, muslim league party had been the favor to win provisional results from the election commission show. they have 162 seats just by claiming to be the largest party. he said that they still do not have enough seats to form a government by themselves. mandate from the bottom of our heart, you'll say, that's what i'm good. we respect the mandate of everyone dialogue quite a bit. why it, whether from other parties, while god, no more independent candidates, i'm going to be at that i'm going to then we invite them to come and sit with us is with me focused on to help package them out of this crisis,

which polasta nearly all my decides of bed and pakistani voters have expressed frustration with the unusual delay in vote, counts with some even casting doubt over the integrity of the election. or it just started, the rigging has been done in the election. but let's see, we're just going to happen to the people engender the bombing. people had been, you know, went out towards do r t exercise their right on their do be as well. but let's see, let's hope for the best, very best supposed to thinking the same like back in 2018 that this time the it isn't. so it'd be and i was much more argued about it as you are aware that the results are getting delayed and delays. so definitely there's something a problem behind a situation. i really do wish change. i will tell you that i have really bad about it. uh, deserves a comment, has given its not up to the much every person knows that just what's happened is

ready and the better thing give i have done the so good for us on for our technician, on miss of a, not a team. and here are also some other stories and making headlines around the world . now, in india, at least 3 people have died and cautious sparked by the demolition of and as long as the school and the joining parasite authorities and begin to con state say that they were built to legally and official says that police have been authorized to shoot rioters, india has a into majority. muslims say that they are being unfairly targeted to a is holding a state funeral for former presidents, sebastian can yetta. the 2 time president died on tuesday when a hell a crossed or he was piloting, crashed into a lake to lands happened visiting his coffin in the former congress building. it

has now been taken to a cathedral for the main funeral. of the fire has up to a residential building and rushes capital. moscow officials say 400 people were evacuated when the blaze broke out. overnight it occurred in the capital's northwest. the flames have now been contained versus president vladimir putin has given his 1st one on one interview to western media since 29 team to a controversial right when us talk show host tucker carlson is a former fox news host. the key ally of the 2024 election candidate, donald trump, and a local opponent to us military aid for ukraine states mike. he travelled to moscow to conduct the interview which was broadcast on the tucker carlson network. the russian president use the occasion to push for recognition of moscow's interest, depicting russia as a victim of western betrayal and fear mongering costs and left put in largely from

challenge and in a video from the type of crossing network. some questions lead to jokes, rather than real answers, have a look who blow up north stream you for sure. i was busy that made it and you have to have uh, i did not pull up your last name. uh, it takes you to know what it was. well, there were also more serious exchanges during the 2 hour interviewing, which put in repeated his claim that his invasion of ukraine was necessary to protect the russian speakers there. and to guard russia against nato. in further comments who said that it was impossible to defeat russia and ukraine, flushed and pointed to keeps refusal to conduct the talks with moscow to proceed in more video from the tucker carlson network food and also said that russia would never attack poland or the vault and we have a list, you can give

a different new imagine a scenario where you sent russian troops report a couple of times, which is a sense of that in the palm lane. one case if poland attacks russia, why? because we have no interest in poland, latvia, or anywhere else. why would we do that? we simply don't have any interest into this, but it's just the trip monitoring. well, the argument, i know you notice is that well he invaded ukraine. she has territorial aims across the continent and you're saying unequivocally, you don't send, you know, it's up send you like history channel. it is absolutely out of the question and you can, i mean, you just don't have to be any kind of analyst. it goes against the common sense to get involved in some kind of a global war, and the wayne state, and i'm going and a global warbles bring all humanity to the brink of destruction. it's of this. so

now a lot to unpack here and our correspondence, william, blue cross and roman gunter ranko are standing by to help us welcome to both of you . you know, many voices. they have ridicule this interview and dismissed it as a useful propaganda tool for putting among them former us secretary of state, hillary clinton. let's listen to what she have to say and then i want to get your reaction. like a puppy dog. you know, he somehow is, after having been fired from so many outlets in the united states. he, uh, i would not be surprised if he emerges with a contract with a russian out west because he is a useful idiot. he says things that are not true. he parents why them are pollutants? a pack of lies about ukraine. so i don't see why putting wouldn't give them an interview. roman is quinton right there. did cross an offer put in a propaganda opportunity on a silver platter to absolutely so,

um this was an opportunity for him to talk unchallenged. so um, let me give you just one example. he was speaking a lot about the russian history. an expert with oscar additional questions? no questions came um, what he meant, posing claim that when the russian empire was growing as it was and was absorbing other peoples as a boy, was it, which is a euphemism for conquering others other peoples. he said that a rational treated those, those minor peoples, um, as an old parts of russia properly, that the culture was cherished and so on. this is a lie. an example from your crime, from the 19th century that you came in, the language was forbidden in russian and by the time and during the soviet period, so over the 70 s, there were a lot of for impressions, games to create and culture ukrainian writers who created poets what killed by the salvage state in the thirty's. so, um she,

she just enjoyed that interview because she could just spread all his property, mixture of facts, semi effects, and lies just like he lost a william to you. uh, do you think that this can be dismissed as an attempt by cross and to say relevant, or is there more at play here because when we look at the time in the us elections are coming up soon. carlson is seen as a, as a key. trump ally, there's an aid package up for, for a vote with regard to ukraine. what do you make of the timing are right, there's a lot of moving parts here as you've pointed out. and of course you wants to be relevant in that regard. tucker carlson is very much like the so called corporate liberal main stream media picture or picture adjective. i've actually so lambaste and criticizes of any media personality. any media institution wants to get big gets like this big interview partners like this and is willing to compromise some

journalistic values. it's called access journalism. you give up some of your, you know, your journalistic integrity or your, your right to criticize in order to get access to powerful people. it happens in the west and united states and european countries all the time deal to get those big gaps. those the interviews to then have a splashy widely viewed widely talked about interview. so in that regard, tucker carlson, i'm just following the very style media playbook very much the same playbook that he often criticizes. okay, but what's the bottom live volume? because i mean tough across and had a huge following when, when he was on fox news. when we look at the talking caught tough across the network. now, does the interview have any real power? would you say the sway us voters? are they paying attention? a i r s a, that's kind of a wait and see question, but overall, i mean, he does have wide reach. he has popular following his youtube and twitter channels where he brought mostly broadcast has several 100000 or up to even several 1000000

subscribers. also his personal accounts, these videos on twitter, if you can believe twitters numbers, which it can be questionable, has over a 100000000 views of that much higher than the youtube viewership. so for at about 5 and a half 1000000. so given the most carlos and put in sort of a try on for it, that was referred to in that put and carl said interview might be a little question of, of, of, of twitter x is uh, numbers. nonetheless, it has wide region. it has the widest reach, really possibly other networks, right. we're all talking about it. we are all talking about tucker carlson. so again, to go back to my previous answer as much as target carlos and criticizes corporate media or mainstream media, he very much needs platforms like us and like other broadcasters, to help replicate and reproduce that message because he's getting major play time today. let's bring this to the, to a political level roman. you have been covering ukraine for years. what do you make of the timing through that lens? do you think that pollutant has a very clear focus on the us selection and the potential to change us policy at

this point? especially with regard to the support of the war and ukraine. yes, i think the timing is very accurate to just a few weeks before they impose in primaries in the united states to super tuesday and a with the donald trump gaining power. we've received this already and, and that he's actively actively in swimming. introducing us policies towards your crime. and um, it is also for germany for countries in europe here. well, we also have elections this. yeah. and when we, when we talk about germany, there are 2 parties, one of them, a new just established the policy of a son of hawkins next uh, the left devonte who left the left ponti. and um and now she has the policy. okay. i don't. one of the major topics of this new party is a piece and pacifism,

and she should mom's side of our context to stop delivering weapons to ukraine. and this is best basically what poaching is, is saying, he says, you want this war to stop. no problem, just stop giving weapons to ukraine and that will be peace. and i think this is, this is a better calculated message, not just to germany, but to many countries. while there are strong, strong political movements, also who oppose helping ukraine militarily. and last, but not least, in russia itself, that will be a presidential election in march. and can you sell this? um, of course, what he meant, pausing controls the media and it has no problem to talk to, to his russian public. but when he talks to afford him, journalist this has more weight. so this is also important for him in his domestic contain. okay, william and roman, thank you so much for your reporting for putting this all into context for us. we appreciate it. or the new kinds of president below the mirrors,

the landscape has dismissed his top military commander general for larry solution e is regarded by many as a national hero for overseeing ukraine's war effort. since brushes, full scale invasion, started in february 2022. the iron general of ukraine valerie's allusion. e is widely known as a symbol of resistance against russia. he had led ukrainian army as commander in chief. this russia's full scale invasion began in february 2022. successfully pushing back. in the 1st months of the war. news of his dismissal was confirmed and then address by president full of the mirror, zalinski, citing a need for re shuffle. yes, i am grateful to generals, allusion, need for 2 years of protection. the letter thought we spoke frankly today about what needs to change in the army with the boy urgent charges, higher,

majestic. the generals that lose need to be in the team of the credit in state, in the future. i will be grateful for his consent. are you able to have jasmine is a whole, is good. so lensky claimed that most commanders leading more efforts and ukraine have not experienced the front lines firsthand and said it was time for new york approach. he named alexander thursday, the head of ukraine's ground forces to take charge of the military service keys, known for leading ukraine's defense in the city of boston. moved for you cranford, one of the bloodiest battles, and for defending to you've in the streets of keys. the new sparks mixed reactions. and when you say it's, it's on the chest, i do not think this is the right time. this is not the time to find the army chief said, this is a very odd decision. you said they're so nice here. well,

i think that to be no one in the me and it is not a solution. me. it's, and there's always there. when you do, i'm very upset. i don't know about others, but i'm very upset. this is a signal that was just me all the way you sullens case plan to revamp you. craze military comes in mid months of uncertainty in ukraine. the conflict is out of stalemate. and there are questions over whether keys will receive additional military aid from the us and london based military analyst, mike martin told us more about ukraine's new commander in chief and what is likely to obtained under his leadership. the search key was born in russia in 1965. so in the soviet union as it was then and served in the side of your own forces including and i've got a son he most recently, he's been the come on the ground forces. he said in your package and he was

responsible for the defense of keys in the ignition invasion for which she was ordered. uh oh, she was given a metal, i mean, an amazing piece. what and heels and that the offensive into hockey is difficult to say from that history exactly what he's going to do. but i think we know, of course, he will have discussed as an agency this new change of approach. and that is the reason why he would have been appointed. so i think, i think we're going to see some changes in the way you cry and approaches the will . so i think it's, it's commonly accepted that the ground bottle has reached the style might. and i think will remain there until the off to the us presidential election until we get clarity geopolitically as to what the levels of western support will be. the ground was not going to move on. i think over the last month we'll say, we've seen the inklings of what the new you find new strategy is. there's been increased a tax on russian gas and oil terminals. there's been the sinking of russian ships. so i think you train is gonna hold the ground roll as it is,

and it's going to strike russia's economic power because they've russia, con salads, oil and gas, then it can't afford to continue the war at the same pace. and so i think this is the new shockey that we're going to see was we wait for the results of the us presidential election. and that was military analyst, mike martin speaking with us from london to the gaza conflicts now where israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu says that he has asked his military to develop a plan to evacuate civilians and to feed remaining him off forces in rough up it comes after the us said that it would not back any is really offensive this city without proper planning. netanyahu says that rafa is a strong hold for him off which carried out the october 7. the terror attacks aid organizations fear a military operation. there would be a humanitarian catastrophe. another family left grieving

after 5 relatives were killed by use railey strikes law, the almost u. k. lost both parents in the name we was sleeping and we suddenly woke up to the sound. the foaming rocks were above our heads and defy. had started off at the end, i was calling for my mother, father and my siblings. and they didn't on to me. well, that's not without the net. the southern city of rough or east home to over a 1000000 displaced people who fled to the ball to town seeking safety. people say they are living in fear of a promise. these really advance the result of the normally we don't know where to go. they told us the raft, who is a safe area for displaced people and we would displace the rafa after being told to leave, han eunice most of the situation, but such guys, me who do we have to go home,

our destroyed houses and we have no other choices we are just waiting to die, we're waiting for the moment. if i were execution us national security council spokes person junk had a said a minute, treat operation in rough or would be a disaster and that the us would not support it. the president joe biden also gave the strongest warning gets i'm of the view as you know, that the conduct of the response in gaza is the guy is a strip has been um over the top we talk to be open to gate other as really so i'm i'm pushing really are really are getting the manager and assistance in to guys. there are a lot of innocent people are starving,

not innocent people who are in trouble. don scott, to stop streets close to rough as q 8 hospital have be left in ruins, and often he's mainly prime minister benjamin netanyahu told troops to pass the operations in the states. a few safe areas. lifting garza and also under threat spring. you know, some more stories making headlines around the world. the polish farmers have lost border crossings with ukraine to protest against you. policies. the demonstrators are kicking off a month long nationwide strike. they're angry at cheap imports from neighboring ukraine, and government in action to protect their livelihoods. you commission president are so the funder line has announced over 200000000 euros in aid to help more attaining a curb, a legal migration to europe, and a meeting with more attaining as president mohammed old cars. why me?

she said that the african nation will also receive funds for humanitarian aid and job creation. that's due to a seal. the u. s. supreme court has signaled that it would reject and attempt to remove donald trump. from the 2024 presidential ballot justices appeared skeptical during a hearing over a colorado supreme court ruling the barge from from the states primary after finding that he engaged in insurrection on january 6th, 2021 us president joe biden has rejected findings of a report that implied his ability to recall, personal events was impaired, saying that his quote memory is fine. the report was by a special council looking into whether fide and wilfully mishandled classified information. while a private citizen, it concluded no criminal charges are warranted. so investigation german chancellor,

olaf schultz is in washington for talks of lawmakers and president joe biden. the leaders are set to discuss the israel hamas war and russia's invasion of ukraine. ahead of his trip, schultz gave a brief statement in which he urged the e u. n. the last 2 quote 2 more, to help you crane, and it's fight against russia. u. s. senate remains divided on releasing more funds . last week, the you approved a 50000000000 euro, a package for ukraine. after months of frankly use washington bureau chief and as pul paid for looking at some of schultz his previous visits to the white house and were german american relations could be heading in the future. when you as presidential biden and german chancellor or not shots, meat and washington, the stakes can hardly be higher. the danger of the conflict in the middle east escalating into a conflagration seems to be increasing every day. the russian aggression against 2

grain shows no sign of stopping a fight in coal salts when he wants to talk to europe, particularly on the 2 big crises. ukraine and the middle east. soul just helped get a 50000000000 euro aid package for key for cross the political finishing line as an e. u summit in brussels. and just like the united states, germany is the one see at israel side. the you as president and the german chancellor will come together to reaffirm their strong support for ukraine. renewed off shots will be meeting joe biden here in the oval office right behind me. he will not only be meeting a president who is unable to get any further funding for ukraine through congress, but also a president who was just at the beginning of an election cycle. on which end we might see another president in the white house who promised to cut off funding for you create. if donald trump wins this visit of the german chancellor at the

whitehall as might be the last one for quite some time. and the former president cas little about the trans atlantic relationship and even less about a good relationship with germany. putting the future of us german cooperation on the phone. he is global issues, very much in doubt. and now to a matchmaker of sorts who towers above the rest. a frenchman has won a place in the guinness book of world records for building a giant replica of the eiffel tower. with match sticks. richard plod spent 8 years and used 700000 match sticks to build the model, which is over 7 meters tall. dennis had originally rejected plots, replica because he used custom made matches without the require slammed tip. the record keeper's changed their mind, saying that their original judgment was too harsh. you're up to date 19. i mean is

up next to the point with a panel analyzing how far vladimir putin might be willing to go to secure victory in ukraine. just be with us if you can for that. i'm sarah kelly and for less. thanks for watching the,

to the points. strong opinions, clear position. international perspective. vladimir putin has his eye on the upcoming presidential election that has been drumming operation support for the war . a new frame with the old soviet slogan, everything for victory. but how far is he willing to go this week on to the point? to the point the next on

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and past the americans argue amongst themselves about continued aid for ukraine. russia is pressing ahead with it's offensive. now while it's made some tactical gains and the don bass region that has come at the cost of many lives. and now some russian women have been protesting the deployment of their sons and husbands. by the head of russia's presidential elections next month, why them are approved and has been drumming up support for the war and ukraine using an old soviet slogan, everything for victory. but how far is pretty willing to go? welcome to this week's edition of to the points.