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Hello, i'm christian fraser. you're watching the context on bbc news. for his birthday president zelensky gets tanks. lots of them. president biden says it shows the the western alliance is united and more determined than ever to back ukraine. the white house decision to send abrams has eased concerns in berlin. after weeks of deliberation chancellor shultz has agreed to send the german made leopard 2s. the house speaker kevin mccarthy has blocked democrats adam schiff and eric swalwell from serving on the intel committee, opening a new front in the deeply divided chamber. and the burnley man ...

These tanks on the battlefield. the three tanks now committed are some of the most sophisticated in the world. the challenger 2, while designed in the 1990s, is still significantly more advanced than the soviet era tanks the ukrainians are currently using. the us abrams, has a higherfuel consumption, it does run on jet fuel but it can be adapted to run on diesel and petrol. and its target aquisition, the way it speaks to other tanks in the battalion will be hugely important. and then there's the leopard 2 — which germany manufacturs. easier to operate. poland and germany are already committe...

Conservative cabinet minister justine greening and ron christie former adviser to george w bush. welcome to the programme. it has been a fractious few days, nato allies openly criticising the decisions in berlin, the german chancellor refusing to send his tanks, unless the united states also had skin in the game. but out of delay and a whole lot of diplomatic wrangling, has come a momentous decision. nearly 100 nato tanks, will be sent in the coming month to the front line and the border with russia — a move that was unthinkable months ago. we will provide battle tanks to ukraine, the leopar...

To help defend and reclaim its territory from russia. britain has gone first in sending western main battle tanks, but it is a fraction of what is being asked for. hundreds of thankyou are not hundreds of tanks. all of us can use thousands of words in discussions. but i cannot put words instead of guns that are needed against russian artillery. defence chiefs have pledged fresh support. but berlin is still resisting pressure to release its leopard 2s. it gets to decide where german—made tanks can go, even those bought by other countries. minister, why is berlin so hesitant on this issue? we ...