k. has announced it will supply tanks and artillery systems to ukraine. it follows a phone call between british prime minister, which you sooner can ukrainian president let me lensky on saturday me. ukraine will receive british army challenges through tanks that are saying is essential to recapturing occupied territory. me that the baba has moved from london. i minister richie c not told the president lensky that britain would be supplying, quote, challenger to tanks and additional artillery systems. know figures, but the local media a, suggesting it could be around 12 tanks from the u. k. fleet of $227.00 challenger to tags. which date back to the 19 ninety's president zalinski has find the u. k. on twitter saying that it would not only strengthen the but to strengthen you create on the battlefield, but also send the right signal to other partners. now that's crucial because next friday there is a big meeting at the ramstein air base in germany. west 50 defense ministers will be present and

k. has announced it will supply tanks and artillery systems to ukraine. it follows a phone call between british prime minister wishes. so now can the ukrainian president, the letter means the landscape on saturday. mm. ukraine will receive, among others. the british army challenges to tax, which is seen as crucial to recapturing occupied territory. for more on this, let's bring in again barbara who joins me live now from london. hello, then a dame. what will key tell us about what the u. k is promising? well in that phone call that you were just mentioning prime minister issue. so you not told president lensky that britain would be supplying quote, challenger to tanks and additional artillery systems, no figures, but the local media a suggesting it could be around 12 tanks from the u. k. fleet of 227 challenger. 2 tanks, which date back to the 1990s president zalinski has find the u. k. on twitter saying that it would not only strengthen the but to strengthen you create on the battlefield, b

k. has sanctioned iran, prosecutor general over after the execution of british or indian national into run . and he was a barrier former iranian defense ministry official was convicted of spying for the u. k. in an audio recording a bar, he said he was made to falsely confess under torture. the u. k. has described the execution, barbaric and cowardly. prime minister receives tonight said, death won't go unchallenged. iran has summoned the u. k. ambassador in response for so sorry, there isn't a wrong with more on the impact of sorry, hanging i lose that there is execution is one of the highest level executions in the more than history of iraq. he was a prominent while connected figure within the power structure in the company had close ties with top diplomats bureaucrats. and with this and steve central institutions in the company are also close. graduate with alicia county, who is the secretary general of the national security council. a body that overseas the, the nuclear negotiations and

k. has imported 29 shipments of diesel and other refined products from job numbers since the beginning of the conflict in ukraine and compared to 2021. only 7 shipments. 10000000 barrels all oil in 2022. got to 2021. for 1000000 barrels for that's the difference. and as data also with a question mark on what the meaning of all these sanctions really is. the u. k. must close the loopholes that undermine support for ukraine by allowing bloody fossil fuels to continue flowing across our borders. you see in there has been under constant pressure threats and motor judgments from the west for buying discounted russian oil. it would be interesting now to see what the u. k. if at all, responds to what ukraine has to say about their imports all owing from india. as europe struggles to find new sources of energy, katara energy minister is confident that europe will resume buying russian gas despite the unions pledge to win itself off, russian energy imports do europeans to day are seen. there is no wa

k. has reacted negatively saying bringing tanks to the conflict zone. far from drawing hostility to a close will only serve 2 intensive, i combat operations generating more casualties, including amongst civilians. so it clear fear that there is momentum among western allies of ukraine to send this type of equipment. there is plenty more head on this new sour, including china, releases staggering figures, uncovered 19 related deaths following complaints about a lack of data. the u. k. condemns the execution of a british iranian national, convicted of spying in iran, and a record 6 the when in a row at the deca reli for this french driver, that's all coming out with peter ins. ah, let's head to israel now we're thousands of people are protesting in television, against plans by the new government to overhauled the judicial system. the new far right government, led by prime minister benjamin netanyahu unveiled a plan to make changes to the country's legal system that could weaken the powers of t

k. has said it's sending tanks officially to ukraine and has actually been pressuring germany to do the same. now at the same time this, not everyone in the west has been, has expressed as such willingness to take this conflict to the next level because we saw berlin say that they'll only send their tanks to ukraine if washington agrees to do so. and washington is saying, we're not going to do that right now. we just don't think we're there yet. the abrams tank is a very complicated piece of equipment. it's expensive. it's hard to train on. it has a jet engine. i think it's about 3 gallons to the mile with jet fuel. it's not the easiest system to maintain naturally, this stands that washington has taken has actually upset quite a few germans who basically think that the u. s. is trying to sacrifice other people at the altar of its own foreign policy agenda, one german m p. a basically voice that opinion and also suggested that this is really risky. bringing us closer to a nuclear confrontati

k. has now confirmed it will send those challenger to tanks to ukraine. these will be the 1st advanced tanks given to ukraine by its allies since the war began. keith has been requesting more modern weaponry for months and hopes the british decision will put greater pressure on germany to allow the delivery of its own leopard tanks. police have clash with climate activists in western germany where hundreds of people are protesting the expansion of an open air. coal mine activists have been occupying the village of leach us, which is set to be demolished by the german mining company, our w. e. a police operation to remove the protesters has been taken place for several days. large anti coal marches are also taking place near the town with swedish climate activists. vater timbered among those taking parts and dw report, lynn. even hammerstein has been covering the events in new task force all week. lenny tell us what you're seeing and what to the protesters. what are they doing now? yes, am. what i can see from my standpoint here is on the one hand, the stag

k. has now confirmed it will send those challenger to tanks to ukraine. these will be the 1st advanced tanks sent to the country by its allies since the war began. keith has been requesting more modern weaponry for months and hopes the british decision will put greater pressure on germany to allow the delivery of its own leopard tanks. let's have a look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world. in germany, media reports are circulating that defense minister, christina lashed is planning to resign. the social democrat was widely criticized for a new years message in which she addressed the war and ukraine with fireworks in the background. russia has also been criticized for failing to modernize. germany's military accord in greece has dropped s p. charges against rescue workers who saved migrants from drowning in the mediterranean sea. the defendants faced up to 8 years in jail for spying in forgery. the case was widely criticized by human rights groups and the united nation set. a set it set a dangerous precedent. china confirmed

k. has already announced that we'll send 14 challenger to battle tanks so far, the u. s. has refused to commit the em one abrams citing logistical and maintenance problems. the real pressure, though is on germany now to donate it's leopard 2 tanks. they are seen as the best suited hardware and the most widely available berlin's reluctance to do so means that other countries, like poland cannot then export their german, made leopards on to ukraine. either the more on all this, we're going to bring in d w as chief political correspondent, nina hardly who's standing by at the u. s. ad base in number 9. hi there, nina. good to see now. and we heard this morning, both austin and president for lensky stressing the importance of this moment and the need to act. now, how is germany's chancellor shall is likely to react to this pression? well, of course, chancellor shaw's also sees the urgency. he understands the situation very clearly what we are hearing from the german government over and over again is that still you need to be careful in your deliberations in essentially trying

k. has now confirmed it will send those challenger to tanks to ukraine. these will be the 1st advanced tanks given to ukraine by the allies since the war began. keith has been requesting more modern weaponry for months and hopes the british decision will put greater pressure on germany to do to allow the delivery of its own leopard tanks. let's have a look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world. in germany, media reports are circulating that defense minister christina lamb crushed is planning to resign. social democrat was widely criticized for a new year's message in which he addressed the war ukraine with fireworks in the background. rush has also been criticized for failing to modernize germany's military. china confirm nearly $60000.00 coven related destin just over a month. that's according to the 1st official figures released since paging, made an about face on its 0 coven policy. the relaxation was in response to protests and has helped fuel the wave of infections in the united states. republicans in congress have launched an

k. has said it will send tanks. and of course, that puts a lot of pressure on the u. s. and on germany now, the united states says that it doesn't make sense to send the abrams tanks, that, that they're too heavy. they're too expensive, too hard to maintain it. that leaves germany in the spotlight as we heard from nina . as we heard at the press conference and the leopard choose, now one of the reasons why the leopard twos are so attractive besides the fact that of course, and much shorter distance to travel than the united states would have been sending their own. is that a dozen nato countries use the leopards and so you have more potential contributors? you have a greater expertise greater a availability of spare parts in this is the 2nd reason why germany is under so much pressure, not just to send its own supply of leopards, which it has said might take a long time, but also to allow these other countries and in fact, just during this press conference, we saw reports that the czech republic and slovakia, who have ordered leopards from germany have said they're willi

k. has during the riots that we had a few weeks ago. we're, we're calling on the protesters to kill the police. i've tweeted a couple of these clips where they were legitimize legitimizing and supporting burning police officers align sniping them, and killing them, torturing them in the u. k. if this was done in english, if these, these media outlets where the english language are directed towards a western audience, they will be shut down in minutes. and they will be put on trial for doing this. when it comes to run, it allows so chilling iranian police officers is fine. but executing someone who carries out espionage is barbaric supporting al qaeda. isis and other groups in afghanistan and syria and iraq destroying libya and iraq, imposing rural sanctions on venezuela and q. and the genocide in yemen, these are infinitely worse than any execution, whether one accepts capital punishment or not. but in the western world, all of that is the race because they do it. and their adversaries are condemned simply because they want to be indepe

k. has called the execution of british iranian national into ron callous and cowardly. the former arabian defense ministry official allie was a very with convicted of buying for the u. k. charges. he denied brazil. supreme court will include former president terrible scenario in the investigation until last week's attack in the capital to support a storm government buildings demanding the president. and after a new law, the silver malawi, government says 75, excuse me, 750 people have died in the worst caller outbreak in 2 decades. so it's ordered the closure of businesses without proper sanitation, unrestricted, the sale of pre cooked food, african health authority, se 14 countries on the continent are reporting cholera cases many due to flooding. the health minister has urged malawi and to get vaccinated to slow the transmission of the water born disease a bit. i wouldn't have to put them in middle doses. we've received 2900000 doses of the color of vaccine, but as we speak, we have about 40000 left. it means malawi and scott, the facts saying, what is boring however,

k. has imported 29 shipments of these little and other refine products from job numbers since the beginning of the conflict in ukraine and compared to 2021. only 7 shipments. 10000000 barrels of oil. in 2022. got to 2021. $4000000.00 barrels, so that's the difference. and the data also with the question mark on what the meaning of all these sanctions really is. the u. k. must close the loopholes that undermine support for ukraine by allowing bloody fossil fuels to continue flowing across our borders. you see, india has been under constant pressure threats and motor judgments from the west for buying discounted russian oil. it would be interesting now to see what the u. k . for to response to what you korean has to see about their imports of oil from india. europe's to goes to diversify its energy sources of energy. been if there is confidence that the confidence will resume buying rushing gas enough. despite the unions pledge to win itself off, russian energy the europeans today are saying t

k. has been facing along with the political upheavals and the death of queen elizabeth the 2nd that we take a closer look at what last year brought to the u. k. ah, we have a vision for this country as well as the economy in europe because we are going to unite and label them. i want you to know how sad i am to be giving up the best job in the world. how still are these? i am a fighter, a no i i am resigning as leader of the conservative party. i will work day in and day out to deliver for you. mm. 3 you k like in other countries, is now in recession. why is written set to be the 1st country into recession and the last country out there with us over you'd want to get into that with a ron is outraged by recent cartoon depictions of the country. supreme leader in french magazines, charlie, paris has remained silent on the matter want a wrong foreign minister slammed the pictures as highly offensive. and his son and his french envoy, the insulting and indecent act of a french publication, publi

k. has called the execution of a british or indian national intact ron callous and cowardly body was convicted of spying for the u. k. charges he denied the execution came despite last minute appeals for clemency from britain and the united states. but its prime minister recently sent access, he's appalled and that bodies death won't go unchallenged. so sad has moved from tech from a little. zach barry was definitely not an outsider. he was a key figure in the circles of the diplomatic, the bureaucratic political circles within iran. he had close ties with the national security council, which is headed by a leash, uncanny, and alicia can himself, is very much a close figure and close to there. that is the supreme leader and this body also overseas. all the that the nuclear negotiations and iran sensitive files regarding his foreign and foreign affairs policy. so he was a central figure here and he had also access to the sensitive centers and informations and then, and had the that had relati

mm mm 27000000 is an incredible number whitehead, john kennedy k has american university of commencement address and that is 63. he said that what the soviet suffered of world war 2 was the equivalent of the entire united states, east of chicago having been destroyed. mm hm. initially the plan to attack the u. s . l was code named trojan overtime. it evolved into pendula, bush, mega crankshaft, half moon, coke wheel off tackle, and cherry, a. dia. december 19th, 1949 saw the adoption of the best known plan to wipe out the soviets operation dropshot, date of attack. january the 1st 1957. the plan outlined the complete annihilation of the usaa under the democratic guise of liberating the nations from communism. but those very nations would be wiped out alone with communism. in the 1st phase of authoration, dropshot in visits dropping 300 nuclear and 250000 tons of conventional bombs on the soviet union. in 100 soviet cities were pre selected as targets. the 2nd phase, the u. s. s. r is attacked by 250 nato divisions. soviet thoughts are taken over by nato naval forces. the 3rd phase, annih

has a faith. i am a fighter and i am resigning as leader of the conservative party. i will work day in and day out to deliver for you. mm. 3 you k like other countries is now in recession. why is britain to be the 1st country into recession? and the last country out there with 2 minds about with chinese president has hosted the leader of the philippines, a key us ally and southeast asia. beijing stressed the need for cooperation with manila as the countries signed at 14 bilateral deals while calling for a peaceful and even friendly resolution to that differences. this is your 1st visit china as president of the philippines. also the 1st for english, the china has received this year. this friendship is very precious. i have been looking forward to this visit. we have to show and demonstrate to the rest of the world. how important the relationship is between fire, philippines, and china, to both our countries. previously, the south china sea had been a source of tension between the 2 countries, with the philippines raising concerns. i've led jurisdictional violation by the chinese coast guard, the conduct of its fleet. and your fi

the profile fits i ski and i s k has been making advances and has been conducting such sophisticated attacks. we saw an attack on chinese within up on a sun in kabul a few weeks ago. and then this, while at a high level meeting is taking place is concerning because it drives foreign engagement away. the thought of bon policies have been helped and then having the one thing that looked like a win for the funds, which was the security situation improving. that is, fost dispelling flies have resumed in the united states after technical glitch saw thousands of planes grounded for hours. the problem is being blamed on computer outage of the federal aviation administration, the governments transport agency, audi. jake house. so reports from ronald reagan airport in arlington, virginia. it was a sight not seen since $911.00, thousands of plains grounded at all us airports due to a nationwide stoppage called by the federal aviation administration. no, nothing like this has been in 11 obviously. you know, everything just happened because of the system. i think that she just punch control alt,

k. has imported 29 shipments of these will and other refined products from job numbers since the beginning of the conflict in ukraine and compared to 2021. only 7 shipments. 10000000 barrels of oil in 2022. got to 2021 for 1000000 barrels. so that's the difference. and the data also with a question mark on what the meaning of all these sanctions really is. the u. k. must close the loopholes that undermine support for ukraine by allowing bloody fossil fuels to continue flowing across our borders. you see india has been under constant pressure threats and motor judgments from the west for buying discounted russian oil. it would be interesting now to see what the u. k. federal response to what you create has to see about their imports or, or in from india. meanwhile, the you have been discussing a tend round of sanctions against moscow. the block reportedly plans to impose a lower price cap on oil in a bid to cripple the russian energy sector. however, the member states have so far been unable

k. has denied these reports that it was under patrick helicopter ukraine. however, some experts believe this will happen sooner or later. what do you make of the case? well, i think if it did happen, it would be yes or not. the escalade race should not over the government's ha interventionism in this you kind proxy war, which is of no interest whatsoever. are 2 of the strategic we cannot make needs of our, the united kingdom. i'm john, our year from the pointer. he's the british people. it is not always so thoughtful, and in fact, the government puts the united kingdom in this position. we are without any mandate whatsoever from, from the public. i think if they did go ahead with supine apache helicopters and then the 10 to 14 times, in fact, some reports of eton said 50, but the challenge at science we're talking about i uploaded. so i thought that in, in military i read article was the, the aides for the printing which includes other aid as well as the military aid is already over 10000000000. i'm the u. k. defense budget is about 40000000000 honda. what

k. has been facing along with the political upheaval on the death of queen elizabeth the 2nd. we take a closer look at what last year brought to the u. k. we have a vision for this country, an economy in europe because we are going to unite and label them. i want you to know how sad i am to be giving up. the best job in the world, i am a fighter, i am resigning as leader of the conservative party. i will work day in and day out to deliver the youth the u. k. like other countries is now in recession. why is it to be the 1st country into recession and the last country out there was that.

k has already pledged battle tanks we just heard of. there will other countries now step up their game to well, as we just heard, we have to wait for this meeting in ramstein. but yes, the noise is that with this kind of, you can move. there is really, really not massive, but there is a momentum growing. finland is also pledged more support. poland anyway, has been always of the forefront. and well, we'll see whether there will be this kind of change fundamentally with main battle times. but i wouldn't be surprised if at least the loan number, say 2000 or 50 in total in the coalition of countries could be actually agreed on. and that still doesn't mean that they will arise the next day to ukraine. it will still be a process of months, but it is a critical time because everybody expects a new intensification of the fights over the coming weeks. now in germany, seems to be the main. hold out here. what signal does that send to ukraine? well, this has been a story really for months, as you said, and german decision makers, at least in the

k. has been facing along with the political upheavals and the death of queen elizabeth the 2nd. we take a closer look at what last year brought to the u. k. ah, we have a vision for this country as well as the economy in europe because we are going to unite and level them. i want you to know how sad i am to be giving up the best job in the world. hostile are these, i am a fighter and i'm resigning as leader of the conservative party. i will work day in and day out to deliver the youth, the u. k, like other countries, is now in recession, was written set to be the 1st country into recession and the last country out there with and finally, with the passing of the new year, india has more reasons to celebrate. for example, the mocking of the 75th anniversary since the end of british colonial rule. and in the years since new dallas made notable strides, pushing india to become the world's 5th largest global economy. when his art sees india correspondence, virgin sharma breaking down the country's rise in 2022. neil standing on the global stage has been rising in the recent year. the

k. has already announced that it will send 14 challenger to battle tanks. so far the u. s. has refused to commit the em one abrams fighting logistical and maintenance problems. the real pressure, though is on germany to donate it's a leopard 2 tanks. now they are seen as the best suited hardware and the most widely available balance reluctance to do so means that other countries, like poland cannot then export their german, made leopards on to ukraine. either the more and all of this, we're going to bring in d w as chief political correspondent, nina has a who's standing by for us at the ad 8th in amish. dia, hi there, nina. now what we're hearing out of a gum shine so far is how vital it is the allies to act. now is every one close to being on the same page, i think really trying to call the pressure on of course, as i mean, of course, that's their 100000000000 dollar question here. all eyes are on this meeting here at ramstein, lloyd austin, the u. s. defense secretary said himself keeps watching us. the kremlin is watching us, but history is also watching us. and of cours

k has, has. ready contribution so significant contributions not only as part of the european space agency program but also privately supplying nasa with, with various. ready materials and components, but not have a lot just yet. so this is the real game changer today. now, there will be a 1st on out of the u. k. you mentioned the launches, take place in other parts of the world. does go free, ready? put the u. k. the bit of a disadvantage? you, you very want to launch close this as possible to the equator, don't you? yes, that's correct. you want to be close to the equator and ideally yours won't be in a place where weather is likely to interfere. now the u. k doesn't particularly qualify on those 2 accounts that you get about that. so. ready ready and the way they can play up. ready so it is a little bit higher risk in that sense compared to say the. ready area and rockets when they, when they leave from french piano and when nasa ends up rockets from cape canaveral . but it's not to say. ready

k. has called the execution of british iranian national into her on callous and cowardly on the river . sorry, was convicted of spying for the u. k. charges he denied us by re previously said that he forced to admit his guilt under torture. the execution came despite last minute appeals for clemency from britain and the united states to palestinians have been killed by israeli forces in the occupied west bank. they were accused of firing at israeli troops near janine, the islamic jihad group says the 2 were fighters from its arms wing the brigades. those are the headlines on al jazeera coming up next. it's upfront, thanks for watching. bye bye. for now. the world i can make for returns to dabble in january to assess the global economy was shaped by the panoramic and the war, and ukraine can leaders from government and business prevent a promised decade of actions becoming a decade of uncertainty. extensive coverage on al jazeera in 1971, a military analyst by the name of daniel ellsberg leak

k. has been facing along with the political a peebles in the death of queen elizabeth the 2nd. we take a closer look at what last year brought to the united kingdom. ah, we have a vision for this country, an economy in europe because we are going to unite and label them. i want you to know how sad i am to be giving up. the best job in the world, i am a fighter and i'm resigning as leader of the conservative policy. i will work day in and day out to deliver for you. mm. 3 you k like other countries is now in recession. why is britain set to be the 1st country into recession last country out there with i was hoping you'd want to get into that with that's a wrap on the top stories for this our, for more up to the minute updates head over to r t dot com and up next, thousands of serves were executed and killed during the bosnian war. the full story of the conflict coming right up on our team will see you next hour. ah, ah, ah ah . l look forward to talking to you all. that technology should work for people. a robot must obey the orders given by human beings except where such short