Poland to ask Berlin's permission to send tanks to Ukraine

Global News Podcast

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4.3 • 8.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Germany's permission is required, because it built and sold the vehicles originally. But the Polish government has suggested it might ignore this and send the tanks anyway. Also, we head to one of the eastern Ukrainian towns retaken from Russian forces, and Japan's prime minister warns the declining birth rate is putting the future of the country at risk.

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0:00.0	This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.
0:05.9	I'm Janet Gillil and at 14 hours GMT on Monday,
0:08.7	the 23rd of January, these are our main stories.
0:11.6	Poland says it will officially ask Berlin
0:13.8	for permission to send German-made leopard tanks to Ukraine.
0:17.6	This comes as Russia and South Africa
0:19.6	defend plans to hold joint naval military exercises.
0:23.8	The British Prime Minister orders an investigation into
0:26.6	how the chairman of the governing conservative party
0:29.2	settled a multi-million dollar tax dispute.
0:34.4	Also in this podcast,
0:35.6	Japan's Prime Minister says it's now or never
0:38.7	to take urgent action as the birth rate
0:41.4	declines to a record low.
0:43.4	And...
0:44.1	Think about if you're a skier, right?
0:45.6	Coming down a big slope, steep slope.
0:48.3	But the mountain's chasing you.
0:49.9	That's what it's like.
0:51.3	The Super Bowl of Surfing returns to Hawaii.
0:54.6	For weeks now, the German Chancellor Olaf Schultz
0:58.4	has resisted growing pressure from Ukraine,
	...

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