to ensure that afghan women continue work with aid agencies hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk, on pbs in the us despite a ban by the taliban. yet hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk, on pbs in the us uk, on pbs in the us or around the world. we start with some breaking news here in the uk prime minister rishi sunak has been issued with a fixed penalty notice by police for not wearing a seat belt in a moving car. mr sunak had previously apologised for what he called the brief error ofjudgement in a social media video as he carried out a series of visits in the north of england on thursday. tonight, lancashire police said it had issued a 42 year old man in london with a conditional offer of a fixed penalty. our political correspondent, david wallis lockhart, told me more about the background to the story. rishi sunak was going across the north of england because he was announcing levelling up funding. government funding that was going to specific p
to agree on the sending heavy tanks ukraine s government says it needs to break the deadlock in the war. germany is under pressure to allow its leopard two tanks, to be exported to ukraine, which isn t a member of nato. germany s new defence minister has said no decision has been made adding that berlin would not stand in the way of exports if its allies acted together. the uk has commited to sending 14 challenger 2 tanks to the front line. russia has warned that providing tanks would mark an extremely dangerous escalation. the bbc sjessica parker reports. this is what kyiv wants, but can t yet have. german made leopard 2 tanks, as part of hopes for hundreds of western battle tanks to help defend their country and take back their land.
and an air of urgency. they ve not made a decision on the provision of leopard tanks. what we re really focused on is making sure that ukraine has a capability that it needs to be successful right now. the nato military alliance sees this as a pivotal moment. there is a need for support to ukraine, to enable them not only to survive but actually to retake territory to win this war. but there is a lot of talk about a russian spring offensive. do you think ukraine can take back territory this year? absolutely. that s the reason why nato allies and partners are providing significantly more support to ukraine. this frontline ukrainian unit is using a soviet era tank. they re worn and hungry for more modern equipment, anticipating bigger battles to come.
jessica parker, bbc news, in ramstein. i spoke to inna sovsun, who is a ukrainian mp, and a member of the ukrainian parliament s committee on energy housing and utilities. she told us more how berlin has not decided whether it will allow german made tanks to be sent to ukraine. we are extremely upset by the lack of decision by germany regarding the tanks. unfortunately they have been dragging their feet on this issue for months now, and no decision seems to be coming as of right now. unfortunately, the situation is very bad. we are in the situation where we have to keep asking germany for those tanks. we are losing, sometimes up to 100 people in battles around backwards alone. that is very close: and is exactly where
tanks are needed. the close combat. that is where we need to be able to protect our personnel but we are not getting those tanks are not able to protect our people. we re dozens and hundreds a day because no decision is being taken. this is an extremely timely issue for us and we are not calculated this in a number of hours and days that he takes, unfortunately for us we are captivated in the number of debts, and the number of people as we are losing on the battlefield because no decision is being taken. haifa decision is being taken. how seriously decision is being taken. how seriously do decision is being taken. how seriously do you decision is being taken. how seriously do you take - decision is being taken. how seriously do you take russia s warning that this would mean a dangerous escalation? what does that mean to ukraine? mean to ukraine? look, exactly a week ago. mean to ukraine? look, exactly a week ago. they mean to ukraine? look, exactly a week ago, they launched