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olof scholz says his government would also approve european allies request to shiptanks to ukraining paving the way for countries like poland to supply ammunitions. ukraine welcomed the decision as it prepares for a spring counter offensive. the kremlin called it a dangerous escalation u.s. president joe biden says the tanks will help ukraine defend its territory and pose no offensive threat to russia. >> beabraham tanks are the most complex in the world we are giving ukraine the parts and equipment necessary to sustain these tanks on the battlefield. we will begin to train the troops on the issues of sustainment and maintenance as soon as possible >> german chancellor olof scholz says the policy shift was uneasy for some >> translator: there are many citizens in the country who are concerned over such a decision and dimensions the tanks entail. i like to say to these people, trust me trust the federal government we will continue because we are acting in an internationally coordinated way without risks of the country grow in the wrong direction. >> ukraine president volodymyr zelensk

in the g7, olof scholz is scheduled to be there. so far for much of 2022, the u.s. and europe were aligned aligned in terms of the approach to russia and sanctions there. it feels as tensions are brewing with the u.s. and europe europe increasingly concerned about some u.s. policies that have been put into place and namely the subsidies to try to lure investment into the u.s there is concern those could be anti-competitive how do you see that relationship playing out in 2023? >> i think we are at a turning point. as you said, 2022 was a crisis year if anything, with we can pull a positive story that the u.s. and europe came back to the fundamentals we have seen a lot of strain in the relationship prior to that in the early day of the biden administration some of the strain on the reliance on the protection policies and tensions in the auto sector and trade in u.s. and europe all problems were apparent war in ukraine broke out in 2022 and we came back to the fu funda fundamentals security partnership and pay collectively across the board. everyone moving in the same

chancellor olof scholz ruled it out on wednesday, but the country is open minded on the idea defense ministers are expected to discuss the issue at the summit in ramstein next month. volodymyr zelenskyy spoke to sky news about germany's deliberations before sending tanks to ukraine >> translator: germany's emotional although it has taken steps to change policy toward ukraine which means it changed policy to russia and kremlin germany started the air defense systems and we are grateful to them it was a breakthrough for us it was a lot of other military equipment. emotionally, germany has one connection or the other with the russian federation we hear that german tanks are offensive weapons. we discussed this many times, but we have a right to carry out actions on our territory >> now, annette, volodymyr zelenskyy called russia emotional. it was days ago that the u.s. and germany gifted him with the tanks, but that birthday wish lists has grown and jets are part of the conversation, too. >> reporter: that is a fair summary. there is a clearance answer from germany now which is no. they

olof scholz has backed the plan for funding for the account for u.s. subsidies his allies are drafting state aid rules to match the green technology subsidies. this is a fascinating one to watch over the coming weeks. whether more support gathers in europe for the kind of counter approach >>> as for oil markets, wti and brent trading higher on pace for solid weekly gains this is driven by the china reopening and what it means for demand for crude let's get to hadley gamble who joins us with a special guest. >> reporter: thank you, julianna it is fantastic to have you on the program. happy new year a tough week for energy markets last week. one of the questions has been for analysts does this justify in your mind the cuts we saw the saudis make in october as a member of opec plus >> first, hadley, it is great to be here. great to be back in abu dhabi. the markets have come down a bit. we have seen recovery from the news of china reopening and everybody trying to figure out what is happening in china with the moving away from the zero covid policy when i