the, the, this is state of new news life from funding ukraine's president calls for the rapid delivery of new weapons of to us moment goes approval, package of urgency, needed military aid, prolonged meals, and then he welcomes for support. thank you. will send a powerful message to the kremlin ukrainians. a confidence assistant will make a difference on the battlefield. also coming up is rarely falls, has killed more than a 1000 people during a rate in the west bank in response to protest against loan to a general spike closing deshawn mcfield test the

i'm the whole driving welcome to the program. ukraine has welcome to vote by us, know me, coast of as you urgently needed military assistance. president will automatically, lensky sees for $61000000000.00. a package post by the us house of representatives gives his troop of real chance of victory on the battlefield. the legislation still needs to be approved by the senate and president joe biden, ukraine's leader was urging politicians to do that as quickly as possible. the 2 year old mika lace flowers at a memorial wall for falling ukrainian soldiers in keys. her uncle was killed in the war last year to she strokes his picture. where is my father? she asks her grandmother pointing to the wall of pictures. he's far away. fighting,

defending us. she replies me cuz mother says the us a package could be the difference between life and death for her husband. citing on the front line you close to put the what's the for is the so we just need to ship because they have nothing to protect us. they don't have it but they need yeah. they need it on the we all we have need to have because without that are in the make in advance for the and can reach the center for us to be sent to you. not sure with me at this make shift memorial in cubes. central square the decision by american law makers to review military assistance after months of delay is met with gratitude and release literacy. so then media at 1st glen $61000000.00 might not seem like a loss, but it gives us a chance to get weapons as soon as possible and kick the russian invaders out of

ukraine, which is going to allow them, is the unit. the government says more than 31000 soldiers have died, defending ukraine from russian troops since the start of the war. with many more wounded or missing, tens of thousands of civilians have also been killed. the prince president is urging the us senate to swiftly approved the new military assistance for it to have a real impact on the battlefield. they chess, the time between political decisions are real, enemy losses at the front phones between the approval of the package and the strength of our guys should be as short as possible my of which most of mine and it should be the kind of force you see like really change the situation on the front line, need this to watch it, not but it to be. the ukranian troops suspend month's rationing munitions while russia has gained ground for the soldiers fighting your harkey. news of the new weapons package is greeted with joy. the, this is good news with us,

they'll be weapons, they'll be, i'm your mission, that will be shelves. we have a catastrophic shortage of shows right now. it's not just about bullets and bombs. washington's support package also offers something equally crucial to the fight. hope. meanwhile rushes foreign minister has announced the kremlin aim to capture the ukrainian city of hockey. in a russian radio interview set a good level, set that hockey, this key to put inside the of creating demilitarized zones and ukraine, which would protect russian borders. settlements from ukrainian file hockey, this ukraine, 2nd largest city, and has been on the field bombardment for a week with key infrastructure being targeted earlier. we also data use russian affairs analyst on something and gold. what he knows about most schools plans to launch a massive attack on hockey or you don't do those things if you really want to do

them during the rule. so maybe that's good to be on the thrust to the expected russian offensive later this spring. but all the other, him how give seems like a logical thing for proof. and it's important elements in the best symbols sort of uh, attempt to create a zone of protection for the southern regions of russia, which came increasingly under ukrainian attack in the last few months. however, i think it will be quite difficult to say, oh, this is a big price. it is actually you graceful with cabinets. the lighting 20 is in a very symbolic but i do think that the premiums will be ready for that. and it's not going to be at and what can do in the pocket if the rest of the decide to really take it. but for some of the stuff good to know. i think it's a bit of to, to actually signally, you know, uh,

a package or not. we are not going to be scared and we're going to continue. what we already doing that's, that's by the way of a typical crime and paid now these really military saves, that's the chief of staff, has approved plans to continue the war in gaza. and does really media say that part of the plans include a military operation in the southern gaza strip city of drop off. it comes off to overnight strikes on rough. i killed 22 people including 18 children. that's according to the health ministry in garza which is operated by how much more than half of the strips population of $2300000.00 have soccer fields and russell, situated on the border with egypt. israel has set it will expand his ground defensive into russell. despite international goals for his trained as president of the west bank launched,

a general strike closing the shops and other businesses of the is really top rated a refugee camp in the to treat. the palestinian red crescent said at least 14 people were killed and dozens enjoyed as well. phase of targeted militants during a counter terrorism operation. it strikes military fates the new schon certificate to come in the absorption part of the restaurant. the after not many killed and injured daughter boosters and homes destroyed for another can i you my son was sleeping there so he had gone to wash himself and then he prayed and went home. is the home is higher of. there was a slide for in front of him was shot same. i heard the son of the shooting. my oldest son went up there and found he was bleeding. he planted this look at these flat palestinians describe they've drive it as president.

yup. and of the model. i mean, it'll be within that there is indeed a complete destruction of homeless shop electricity grid. took up the sewage up towards the network and the infrastructure and couple that have the you have to use the incursion is unprecedented to clearly sarah, snipers and rooftop the desk was nothing special. forces deployed to this of, of people that are, you know, it's indeed a can really one of the other men, as i done is try the military sees it, get militants during the read. the army also sees it has the phone and destroyed explosives and sees many weapons used in what it calls, detritus, activities. following they've started by listing and residents launched agenda. the strike shops, universities bond on the public, transportation, but or clues to protest. pennsylvania $850.00 gum phonics

levine is a june list intel a lease. he told us more about the armies of recent mass of reed in the west bank as we are 4 days into this last rate. and then orange. some companies will cut the product, is it the security forces didn't include a deep ration yet. today they both get us said that these are the soldiers retreated, a lift b, what they call a siege on the can sewing the damage that we've seen. also in the reports of some residents and the with back, including ones that i talked to place the main target of the re, the commander of the tool kind of battalion. his name is patricia. it's still alive . actually, contrary to what the, the seen been an 18000000 columns of plastics. i produce each you. the vast majority are made from fossil fuels. only a small fraction of the nearly indestructible material is recycled. the rest ends up in the landfills, the ocean, and even all bodies, from water on plastic pollution. then what's being done about it? i'm joined now by dw report, a ben goldman, ben,

just how big of an environmental issue with plastic? well, unfortunately, it's a massive one way of producing more and more plastic every year. plastic production is on track to double by 2050, just to get this. give you a scale of the growth we talked about here. hoff is a little plastics. matthew has ever made this be made in just the last 20 years. so it's a massive issue. it's also something with a vast majority, as you said, isn't recycled? and therefore, it ends up either buried in landfill or it ends up in the ocean. when it reaches the ocean, it is eaten by marine lived. it ends up choking as a whole marine ecosystems. and once it does that, it's very, very hard to get it out again from the ocean. it's almost impossible, in fact, and it's not just tell me the plan of health, right? a lot of it is ending up in our bodies is what research shows. yes. unfortunately, that's also true researches, uh kind of it's very much in infancy looking into these plastics, particularly within those micro plastics. so that's plastic,

that's more than 5 millimeters in size. and what size is finding when they look into them is that they are everywhere. so it is very small plastics already in human blood, for instance, they've even been found in the percentage of newborn babies. now, we don't yet know fully what the impacts of these micro classics all. what we do know is that, for instance, in the labs conditions, when they've been introduced to human cells, they cause the cells to die. they've cause damage, they cause not to reactions. we also know that many of the chemicals that we use in the manufacturer of plastics offer instance costs in engines that cause cancer. others disrupt pullman's, ms. human body. so clearly if these by capacitance containing these get in trouble he, we can predict probably not a wonderful result that so there's more concern about this issue. and as i said, we're making more plastics. so this issue of micro plastics isn't going to go away unless we do something. so, i mean, this all sounds pretty intensifying and what's being done to combat it. well,

today on a day, millions of people around the world might be going to that communities to, to clean up efforts to in protest cooling fraction. what is clearly needed is a reduction in the use of plastics, particularly the single lease one of those to him earlier. now fortunately, there are tot is the plastics we can use. other things for packaging, such as paper, cardboard, we can use metal and gloss that can be more easily recycled. however, what he's clearly needs is kind of action on a global level. fortunately, that is happening just this week. there's been set to be a full round of talks between negotiate is in canada, on creating a global agreement to deal with the problem with plastic pollution. so in theory, by the end of the year, that will be a draft deal to deal with that. but there isn't awareness of the scale of the issue now. what's needed is to come together from nations to agree on real binding commitments to deal with this problem. world of the w report of ben dolan. thank

you so much. thank you. in other news, the american pop star taylor swift has mashed music streaming records, but the release of the new album, the torture for which department sift released the album on friday much to the delight of funds around the world. the music streaming platforms bought a 5, so that was the 1st album to be stream. mold the 300000000 times in one day. the torture of votes department, the swift 11th studio album, and it's a production with cody, one song. the she has a reminder of our top story. ukrainian, president for the lensky has searched the reference to the free of new weapons of the us. lawmakers, pos to $61000000.00 aid package for you. praying he sees the age will give his troops a real chance of victory on the battlefield. that's all for now. up next is

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