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What to know about Western tanks going to Ukraine – BBC Newsnight
One month short of a year since Russia invaded Ukraine, it’s testament to how far the Western allies have come in their engagement with the conflict that Germany has confirmed it will send its tanks into combat – so far 14 Leopard 2s.
Now other countries with Leopard 2s will follow suit. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, in a hugely significant moment told the country, “Trust me … the decision is the right one.”
At the beginning of the conflict there was outrage when Germany sent just 5000 helmets and a field hospital.
Now, the country is in the top three donors of both military and humanitarian aid. President Biden said that Chancellor Scholz has been “a strong voice for unity, and a close friend,” as he announced the US is sending 31 Abrams tanks, insisting the new deployments were “no offensive threat to Russia”.
Newsnight’s International Correspondent Joe Inwood reports on the West’s commitments to Ukraine from London’s National Army Museum.
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As national media fangirls over Andy Burnham’s TikTok persona, we ask what the new prime minister is doing right online.
Is social media now the ultimate test of a politician’s authenticity, and could cosying up to influencers set a dangerous precedent in terms of transparency and accountability for those in positions of power?
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Two crew members have been killed after two helicopters collided mid-air in Greece while battling wildfires.
A Danish pilot and a Greek fire service liaison officer lost their lives. A British pilot and another Greek co-ordinator on the second helicopter survived.
Video of the incident some 65 km (42 miles) west of the capital Athens shows one of the two Bell helicopters hitting the rotors of the other, which bursts into flames and crashes in a ravine. The other aircraft made an emergency landing.
Wildfires have broken out in Greece this week, leading to mass evacuations. Other European states, including France and Spain, have also suffered devastating blazes during prolonged heatwaves.
The two leased Bell helicopters collided while taking part in efforts to tackle a large wildfire burning on the Attica-Boeotia border.
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis expressed his “deepest sorrow” over the accident.
Clive Myrie presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Sarah Rainsford.
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Late at night, police are called about a man behaving strangely with heavy suitcases on a bridge in Bristol.
When officers arrive minutes later, he has vanished – but the suitcases are revealed to contain human remains.
The bridge is closed, a crime scene is erected, and a manhunt begins as investigators discover a twisted tale of sex, lies, and murder.
This video contains some upsetting scenes.
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The UK’s prison population today is about 86,500 and there are about 2,400 spare places. Overcrowding has caused chaos across prisons and the courts.
Prime Minister Andy Burnham has now changed the incoming early release scheme for some prisoners in England and Wales, to exclude rapists and some other offenders.
So – what other solutions are there to the increasing pressure facing the system? And can the UK look for ideas from abroad?
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02:42: The situation in Europe
04:20 – The situation in the Netherlands
06:01 – The situation in Latin America
08:01 – The situation in El Salvador
11:54 – The situation in the United States
14:06 – The situation in Asia
16:19 – The situation in Africa
17:50 – What can we learn from other countries?
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President Putin’s order to call up another 300,000 soldiers to fight in Ukraine is being met with widespread protests.
Reports have circulated on social media of people with no military experience being drafted, as well as others who are too old or have disabilities.
Thousands of Russian men have been heading for the country’s borders as they attempt to evade conscription.
Huw Edwards presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Steve Rosenberg in Moscow.
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@davidjensen266
January 26, 2024 at 1:25 pm
They will be killing Russian murderers in no time!
@davidjensen266
January 26, 2024 at 1:25 pm
We have parts and they have mechs….its weeks not months….
@davidjensen266
January 26, 2024 at 1:25 pm
It's bs….thos ukrainians are killing our enemy?…we have c5 galaxies and they know where start button is….
@Steinstra-vj7wl
January 26, 2024 at 1:25 pm
…they don't go.
@cestwhat1317
January 26, 2024 at 1:25 pm
I’m embarrassed by the gutless wonders our leaders are. This trickle down defense support is bs. As if our leaders wish to watch thru a sadistic lens the slaughter of Ukrainian people.
@gilbertozuniga8063
January 26, 2024 at 1:25 pm
They will not make a difference!
@nopsevdonim333
January 26, 2024 at 1:25 pm
fuck your tanks. they will burn like your entire economy. even if the war had not ended and we would have walked up to you, for your supplies, to be answered.
@tasmigz4076
January 26, 2024 at 1:25 pm
Residents of Staromlinovka saying russians soldiers are treating them well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUgdqVhQVBY
@gigie555
January 26, 2024 at 1:25 pm
Ukraine is winning this war, according to the western media, but they need more weapons? While the Russians have 10 times more artillery than Ukraine, they are losing 10 times more men, also according to the western media. Seems someone is not being entirely truthful.
@m4d_mark_xtr3me79
January 26, 2024 at 1:25 pm
When you add in other promises…
Yeah, so we can do 59 tanks, is that okay?
-No we need 300
Well we've already given you millions and sent volunteers.
Some how I don't think that's 130, someone's telling porkies
@acidbot666
January 26, 2024 at 1:25 pm
If the objective is to get to global thermonuclear incineration asap we must agree that the west is doing extremely well!
@ckwaiutube
January 26, 2024 at 1:25 pm
depleted uranium shells together? it's endless catastrophic to the people there. looks what happen to balkan war and iraq war, peoples health suffered. satanic unleashed.
@SmokeDog1871
January 26, 2024 at 1:25 pm
Its good that the germans have developed a national conscious but its unforunately now something that the russians are using to take advantage of them and cause the same trauma that the nazis did. At some point this development of germany must evolve into the idea that they are no longer nazis and are willing to stand up for others who are being attacked.
@rosskious7084
January 26, 2024 at 1:25 pm
What we know about Western tanks? Thanks to the Grandstanding and public fight the Western Countries has done and the amount of training that is needed the Russians know when to launch their assault to be the most effective. We need to get them massive amounts of Artillery guns, Himars, Tow missiles and ammo to do until the Training is finished and help with the coming attack. All the tanks they already know how to use needs to be sent ASAP and the training accelerated on the rest. Any MIG fighters or Russian attack helicopters the world can find needs to be scraped up and sent to help blunt the attack.
@mray8519
January 26, 2024 at 1:25 pm
The Abrams uses a turbine engine, the worst choice possible. Complex, extremely vulnerable to dirt ingestion, expensive to maintain, difficult to repair. Total POS.
@basedglennuk
January 26, 2024 at 1:25 pm
Excellent 💪https://youtu.be/8EVrYAu-3B0
@first8208
January 26, 2024 at 1:25 pm
US has nothing to lose! All these weapons are taken from our tax money
@chrissharkey6172
January 26, 2024 at 1:25 pm
They will burn 🔥 shame on you Germany 🇩🇪
@GerardVaughan-qe7ml
January 26, 2024 at 1:25 pm
Clayton Morris talks with Scott Ritter.
Tanks to Ukrain ?!
https://youtu.be/UL5RR3xnq_w
@Samy.Channel
January 26, 2024 at 1:25 pm
Yes send panzers back at eastern front
@user-ly6pl5ot9m
January 26, 2024 at 1:25 pm
Thanks to all nations who help Ukraine to resist russian madness and Putin's fascism!
@phil20_20
January 26, 2024 at 1:25 pm
If NATO was there, you would be running all these different tanks anyway… mostly they shoot the same ammo. At least Challenger uses 120mm. They also want to change to the caseless ammo, so I'm sure they can part with the old stuff.
@leonardmayer2362
January 26, 2024 at 1:25 pm
The sending of tanks to Ukraine could not happen soon enough! What the Germans did in WWII is let an intellectually incompetent man like Hitler lead them into a war. They did not need Hitler. He was economically illiterate and a cognitive failure. What Germany needed was an educated and cognitively competent person to lead Germany out of its economic problems and prosper as it could. It is a problem in the world where you have intellectually incompetent people taking the reins of power. Putin is one example. Putin has stolen the right of self government and the right of liberty from the Russian people. He is trying to do the same in Ukraine by killing women and children and taking over the country. He is so incompetent that everything he says or does is fraudulent.
@CieplinskiPawel
January 26, 2024 at 1:25 pm
My late Grandpa, WW2 survivor:
In 1945 when Soviet tanks crossed Poland WE WISHED IT WAS GERMANS 39' AGAIN‼️