the announcement from chancellor schulte is historic.h a special hundred billion euros defense fund for aircraft, you -- helicopters, tanks and ammunition. ros:they were originally develod in 1979 but have been upgraded many times since then. it is not known as a world leading battle tank. there are loud -- rumored to be around 2000 worldwide. volodymyr zelenskyy has said around 300 and that would help ensure russian defeat. some impact is widely accepted. norbert rock n is an mp from germany's main opposition party. >> this is a position of the chancellor. he does not have the backing of his own government. two parties are rejecting him, but he is resisting blockading the delivery of weapons. now the international pressure is mounting. then you will be forced to change course, but he has lost a lot of time. ros: here is more from our berlin correspondent. >> according to numerous german media reports, it does seem germany will deliver 14 tanks, a big step forward in german military support to ukraine. and also allowed the reexport of ot

chancellor schulte have spoken severaltimes. i chancellor schulte have spoken several times.t there has been a level of coordination, a level as you say of the sort of political cover. the germans didn't want to be the people who escalated this all on their own by allowing the leper tanks to be used from poland, and from its own territory. so this coordination, it does reinforce the message the americans have been making all along which is that unity is important. on this. that message may have been turned around and handed back to them on a plate. if we're going to do it, then you need to do it as well. it is a significant escalation, ben. these are effectively, with these tanks from here in the tanks from europe and the other forms of tanks that are being supplied, 270 choose, you're looking at three battalions of tanks plus hundreds of armoured personnel carriers and fighting vehicles being injected straight into the ukrainian arsenal. that will allow them to fight much more effectively in open territory and of course with that much expected offensive from the russians the

very much for the conversation that found time to join us in our morning program today valentina schults of the odesa district council phone joined us odessa-lviv and kyiv region remain the most problematic regions with blackouts well, in the first place, such a sad prize belongs to our southern palmyra, odessa, which after yesterday's rocket attack still suffered damage to the energy infrastructure and , unfortunately, now, well, the light in odessa is very bad, we still wish in order to send you to odessa as soon as possible, the light has been restored in full , that's it, well, let's hold on, you know nothing, so to speak, and continuing the topic of mykola tyshchenko, what 's interesting, actually, it's also interesting that people are journalists in first of all, they began to be interested in how it was carried by what wind. did it carry a small tishchenka to thailand er-e monsoons or you breeze and because the president said that now civil servants can go abroad only on er-e important matters, only on business trips, just employees, for example, women in which children cannot vis

a moment of remembrance for chancellor schulte and wales iris at the memorial wall, where the names of 30000 victims of the argentine dictatorship are engraved. sullens unemotional. it's a reminder to us not to take democracy and freedom for granted, but to see it is something we have to stand up for every day for the speed and talk . i interesting. listen at a meeting with argentinian president. alberto fernandez, shalt called for speedy ratification of the free trade agreement between the e u and latin america marker sore group. both leaders want stronger economic ties. i can hear argentina is keen to become a reliable global energy supplier f. that's why we also talked about cooperation with lithium mining and green hydrogen that you don't know right away. and shelters key and to strengthen europe's position in terms of energy and raw material supplies. argentina has the world's 2nd largest deposits of shale gas. it also has large reserves of lithium in the salt flats of the andes. their in demand in germany for the production of electric cars. but the plans have angered local resid

we hear german, chancellor schulte says he'll send lippard to tanks only if the u. s cents abrams tanks, which thy side i won't, has the german chancellor found another way of stalling the decision. well, i mean, this is, this is a sort of famous and it is called a german war guilt thing that they don't want to be seen to be a going to war with russia by themselves. they want to be part of a nato and alliance a maneuver so they can't be accused of just as being a, just a german war move. so it's, it's a, it's a sort of a long held german issue with supplying weapons to conflicts. but, but in the americans have their own issues with supplying our arms and, and heavy equipment allegedly present. barden made a deal with the chinese back in the school or spring that to try and head off chinese arms supplies. he promised that the, that the press, the prisoner china, that america wouldn't supply offensive weapons. fighter planes. tanks, attack helicopters, long range, cruise missiles. so the, the americans, the calibrating their response as well. it's not just the germans

our san mateo bridge puts you at about 14 minutes traveling from a 80 to 101, 80's selanne schulte award. 25 minutes to make that drive a richmond. sandra fell bridge tolls to 1, 1, about 8 minutes there. and the golden gate bridge. 37 to the tolls. 19 minutes darya. james, back to you. >> 6.31 and thanks to all the recent storms, california's drug situation is drastically improve. yeah, relief. that's what you have on the big monitor there. researchers, however, stress that we're not out of this just yet. we still have more to go. in fact, couple more years, potentially wet weather to get really caught up. capitol correspondent eytan wallace takes a closer look. well, no doubt as it pertains to the drought. the storms are welcome news in california. but researchers emphasize they only mean so much without long-term consistency. >> all of the new rain and importantly. all of the fresh snow made a huge difference in california's drought situation since the start of the new year. a look at the most recent drought monitor update on the right side of the screen. dated january. 10th shows all

here are the deliveries of tanks, about which the schults are already openly asking at the economic forumstion with his tail, when will the deliveries begin to be transferred. e, from one stone from one garden to another type, we put leopards, only when you put abrams, abrams will not be put here by the french with their tanks. why did it influence i’ll ask you directly about this capture of solidarity, if there had n’t been a capture of solidarity, the tanks would have gone more actively. and you know, i don’t think that solidarity has any effect here. but, in fact, there is really no german decision in principle, and it is clear that this is julia scholz saying that she is ramstein, which should happen tomorrow, and germany will not announce the delivery of its equipment, the question is only different. and will germany give permission at all for the supply of a leopard, because without the consent of germany on the nato side that has these tanks in service does not have the right to supply them, including poland, that is, such an agreement is always drawn up that if they supply weapons

and the schults did n’t say a single good word, you don’t. it, they can't say that they are all russian propagandists praise the schulz. for example, i do not praise, but this is the era of a new sincerity. she, of course, it's cool. we learn so much, in general, about how politics is done. who is involved in it, what are its real goals? so i just told you about it, but right after the advertisement i will show you one american general, which is like this in plain text in general, what should we take into account with these natives there, what they think, that is, i will say, but it will be right after the advertisement. you can be my friend, come on only with the condition that you the branch will return, we look today at 21:20. what is the most cost-effective medicine for insomnia melatonim evalar is more profitable up to 60% new galicin plus melatonin in one tablet reduces anxiety and speeds up falling asleep glycine plus melatonin evalar double action and now you are already skimming off the cream of the sovcombank in the branch and onlin

another woman if he intends to to keep all the promise to hand over half to all women these are such schultesr, they criticize the coalition partners, as stated by the chairman of the freedom democratic party of germany kubiki, the federal chancellor should appoint a person to infusion an important post for security in germany, guided not by questions, equality of sexual rights, exclusively the competence of this person is precisely many residents of germany also believe that a professional who understands his business is needed. we need to appoint a retired female general. can hold this position but it would be better if she served in the army, in such tense times, it is certainly important that the new minister or new minister, as soon as possible, earn the trust of a soldier this task is called a possible successor, because she often talks about problems lately will look like an additional 100 billion euros were planned for germany , at least in the eyes of the german soldier. well , in the united states, the garage, the so-called gate, a new portion of secret documents does not subside. t