president zelensky there today. we saw president zelensky making an appeal yes yesterday to the international community for tanks. germany not moving on that at the moment. just explain to us the frustration must be across ukraine in terms of that lack of decision. it was quite interesting, because ukrainian media, when they were reporting about the ram stein meeting, they were almost certain that the tanks would be approved, and those in the ukrainian media and the country, they thought the text would be given. it came as quite a surprise to the craning people it was not approved, and when we heard yesterday the us defence minister speaking, when he was asked about why the tanks were not approved, you could look at his face and also make some kind of assumption of what he thought about it, so there was a feeling among the journalists,
are key to holding back russia s expansion plans. translation: the partners are firm in their attitude. i they will support ukraine as much as necessary for our victory. yes, we will still have to fight for the supply of modern tanks, but every day we make it more obvious there is no alternative to making the decision on tanks. president zelensky has made his appeal to this meeting of defence chiefs at ramstein airbase. poland has agreed to train ukrainian soldiers in using the leopard 2s, but berlin gets to decide where the leopard tanks are deployed. the us is also under pressure to make its abrams tanks available to ukrainian forces. it has not said yes yet, but is offering other support. until putin ends this war, his war of choice, the nations of this contact group will continue to support the defence of ukraine in order to uphold the rules based
between the traditional russian army, the russian military and the leadership of the wagner group. and the us is talking that up, playing it up, presumably in a further attempt to curb the overall activities of the russians in ukraine. peter bowes on that us decision on the wagner group. let s go to israel now. thousands of anti government protesters are gathering in tel aviv for what are expected to be one of israel s biggest demonstrations in years. protestors are angry over prime minister benjamin netanyahu s plans to limit the powers of the judiciary. critics claim the government s judicial override policy which would also give it powers to appointjudges could destroy democracy in israel. and that is why they are out on the