in tour of europe seeking to drum up more support for his country's fights against russia's attacks. it's a trip he meant to embark on earlier this month already, but had to postpone. after russian forces opened a new front, near the city of hart, keep providing him with another dramatic argument for an increase and military assistance in belgium. zalinski inspected the american, made of 16 jets ukraine should start receiving soon to. he says, we'll be seeing battlefield use this year already. he's taking what he can guess, but he's not getting all your needs. cave is increasingly relying on bilateral agreements with individual states. well hungry continues to block much needed aid coming from the european union on nicole for ocean berlin. and this is the day the

ukraine can only push back the invader if we provide more. and if you provide better arms, and if we are able to do it in a fos of base the someone's on us right now, when russia is trying to expand and prolong the war, we need more concrete steps to bring peace, close circle giving you a number to try somewhere. then, i mean, are you using up to 300 jets, 300 helicopters? let's say you're on a daily attack to us. so we need as much as we may get a reward for when they draw us and then other models, of course, do you members on stuttering of the delivery or the nation of defense systems. and in particular, the most advanced ones. the patriots systems also on the day on the front line in the ukraine with a drone come back unit to come on. how could i should we're going to just, i want to do the best job. i can do that to do it when it goes eliminating the

enemy saves the lives of our boys is a lot of depends on this work. the most of course we feel the adrenalin is the one that awesome the welcome to the show. it's good to have you with us. your current president will let him or zalinski was in lisbon and brussels today on his tour of european states aimed at boosting some force for the war effort against russia. the good news for ukraine is that he was able to make the trip at all. this is a visit for us to take place later than planned because of russian offensive and ukraine, which have left defenders saving territory, among other reasons, because it has been running short of weapons. that's what this visit is meant to change, at least to some degree. so landscape visited a belgian military air base today. the government in brussels has agreed to provide 30 us made of 16 fighter jets over the next 4 years. the belgian government has

also pledged 1000000000 euros and military aids not matches. a pledge by the spanish government made on monday. here's the landscape speaking and brussels today . e, some was on us royce. no rush, wind rush is trying to expand and prolong the war. we need more concrete steps to bring peace closer. remember, 1st of all, we have a clear commitment to, to the supply of combust aircraft, to ukraine. ok, you, me, thank you for this decision. the job was that said, the agreement we have with belgium is for the supply of 13 f, 16 aircraft. our task is to make sure that we can start using the 1st f sixteens in ukraine this year and make our position stronger, never going to use or will, and i suppose the to be a sitting issue ma'am. harry schultz joins us now from brussels. terry and ukraine has been asking for f sixteens for a really long time. now. how beneficial is this contribution now more than 2 years into the war and spaced out over 4 years?

that's right, nicole, this was one of those advanced weapons. in fact that president zalesky was told he would never get. so in that sense, it's still a success even more than 2 years into the war. but in that time, of course, russia has made a lot of advances. a lot of ukrainians had been killed and military analysts have always said the 16 doesn't solve everything. yes, it gives you create a more powerful air force. it can help them contest the air space over ukraine. but here's another, uh, another hang up that comes with this contribution by the belgians. they've been said that they say that it can only be used in ukrainian territory. so there won't be any use a visa sixteen's going into russia to try to destroy ss on that side of the border . president zalinski over these past couple of days, assign security agreements with belgium, spain, and most recently with portugal individually. that is, wouldn't be far more beneficial and efficient maybe to just negotiate with the

entire issue with the entire bach as well. that would make sense. of course, of all $27.00 countries would agree to support ukraine to the extent that these bilateral agreements have done. for example, the belgian one is 10 years and it gives you create increasing military support, financial support, training exercises, things like this. but in the u, that would mean that all 27 have to come to the same decision. and once again, as we've seen so many times in the past when it comes to ukraine, hungry has refused to support, allowing the european union to even use some money that's already been here march for ukraine. it says it will not allow more weapons to be shipped to ukraine and that anybody who wants to help you cranes simply ones for over p. so hungry is really a sticking point in the you acting as a whole. now i should point out that should ukraine become a member, which is of course, what it wants to do and what the e u has promised that there will be some security guarantees that go along with that. but certainly there's no way that they can get

a blanket guarantee from the u. s. things done. now. there was in brussels today, a meeting of a you defense ministers. was there any signal that hungry might be willing to lift as blockade on ukraine and assistance? on the contrary, actually i asked ministers coming out of the meeting if there'd been any sign of this. and they basically had to say no, there are some side initiatives like a proposal. poland is made for a new border initiative. that hungry may be willing to support support kind of piece meal. but on these big budget matters, they didn't show any sign of relenting yet. and that's really disappointing for ukraine and disappointing for all the countries who really want to increase their support for that country. me. you mentioned that there, there are countries that want to increase their support and they are finding ways to help ukraine without the need for unanimous decisions. one of those countries, or one of those is a checklist initiative aimed at sourcing artillery shells from all over the world.

be right back with you, terry. but 1st here's check from interpreter of fi. ellen prop today to get continues to develop the immunization and to show this in the coordination of his international fastness. safety in you and nato countries, or let to contribute dates over 1600000000 euros. our thoughts village shown to improve ukraine's defense. as i promised defense, tens of 1155 for me. the me to immunization will be delivered in june. ukraine can expect a defense schiffman visit in the next days that should be music to the landscape ears. terry, what can you tell us about this? and i to this. so that's right. nicole, as we've been speaking about so many times. munition is really one of the, the items that you know is, is needing life or death for ukrainian soldiers. some of the retreats that we've

had to senior premium troops make, have been because they have been running out of ammunition. so this check initiative, which only became public in february, even though it had been underway since before the war began, has really been a bright spot. and it's really shown how a relatively small country, like check you can make a big difference when it wants to. let me show you how that was done or shell hunger. that's what it's called when troops lack of munitions, but ukrainian soldiers are already suffering shells. starvation a factor in recent retreats they've been forced to make their craniums are not running out of courage. they are running out the i'm a nation, a pledge made last year by the european union to provide ukraine a 1000000 rounds of ammunition by this march. only managed to send half that amount by the self imposed deadline. meanwhile, however,

another plan was gathering steam far from brussels and the headlines underway even before moscow's full scale invasion. in february 2022, the so called check initiative had been quietly arranging weapons deliveries to ukraine that had been purchased on the global market. we were gathering the different types of weapons on a large excel sheet. and we were preparing for the possibility that somebody would actually buy it from the list, and we would be able to deliver it to you for an asap b. the programs coordinator, thomas could patch, and he says their focus turns to ammunition when europe and production didn't scale up as quickly as hope we just came. and we said ok. so this wasn't able to to be done by the institutions of the plan. so so let's try this. the robust check weapons industry identified ammunition, stockpiles all over the world, some and countries that would not sell directly to ukraine for political reasons. david hots, a ceo of s t v,

one of the check manufacturers helping facilitate the purchase is through prague. we as a company as well, so the on the companies it into to provide if they have larger network of the suppliers and produce them towards. yeah, so we just pick to a to or contacts and makes things happen. denmark and the netherlands were the 1st other countries to invest in that x plan while it was under the radar to check government went public with it earlier this year. we can literally by focusing monthly, 500000 around. so for logically, but i'm going to check citizens have raised 70000000 euro for the program through crowd funding and even next door. in slovakia with a government cut off support for ukraine, a similar effort collecting 4000000 euros. now at least 20 governments have signed onto the initiative with germany, spending the most thomas co pets and he says, well, his country is proud of this help for ukraine. the real goal would be to see it

gets too big to be handled across. we will gladly hand over the system of how we do things. i mean, we will be happy of this not being labeled the trick initially if anymore. the 1st delivery should reach you cream next month, and check officials believe well over a 1000000 rounds can be sourced this way over the next year. if keeps allies are serious about preventing a shelf famine on the front line. and our corresponding terry shows who could be seen in that room for doing some heavy lifting is still with us. harriet, this is a remarkable initiative. and as we heard from the tech prime minister earlier, the 1st shells are sent to arrive within days. so has this initiative been able to move more quickly because it wasn't dragged down by a you rocker c? that's certainly one of the reasons and the checks you know, they didn't ask anybody what they thought they didn't wait around to get

a lot of other countries in support. when they started this initiative, they just started calling around the check weapons manufacturers to people the know to companies they knew. and they said, hey, if you got any shells lying around that we could perhaps by and you know, we just a very practical effort. so the prime minister feel is very justifiably proud of it . they were able to do this basically starting on their own. and then other countries joined in quite quickly and wanted to buy these items because they saw that you claim needed them so badly. and they did not have to wait around for consensus. so yeah, it was a lot easier for the techs to move. and it is a really strong coalition. they foot together. how important you think are these multilateral efforts now and maybe in the future, given the hon gary and blocking of you action? absolutely, the, the absolute, you know, stand still on some of the you aid makes clear how important this creative approach to, to sourcing of ammunition and, and other items for ukraine is. and in fact,

they may be talking about the you partners that are involved in this initiative. but there are lots of countries who don't want to be named who are both buying supplies for ukraine and selling them for ukraine. they don't want to be seen shipping anything directly to ukraine, and that's why the checks are serving sort of as a middle man. and they've been able to get around a lot of both of the sort of political problems other countries might have been supporting the program. but also getting around the protection isn't that you see in the weapons industry it and trying to only sell the things that they produce themselves. yeah, the you talking about producing of themselves, they plans to boost their ability to manufacture shells. how is that going as well, they absolutely have boosted their ability and some companies have increase their output by 4 times. there is still a big problem. nicole in getting the orders in now the manufacturers have really scaled up and say we could produce a lot more,

but government still aren't buying them. so there was this initiative to get you crane 1000000 rounds of 155 millimeter ammunition by march, and they didn't make that deadline that uses they will ship that many rounds by the end of the year. and they're saying with this check initiative coming from the u, that's going to be an even greater number, but they weren't able to move as quickly as, as they had hoped to. that's for sure as t w's. terry schultz in brussels. thank you so much for your reporting, terry. as we mentioned at the beginning of the program president, the landscape, visits to europe, was postponed because of the russian defense of this month. near the city of har, keith, a russian troops opened a new front when they poured over the border. in early may, you know, we use my son that has visited front line soldiers facing the russian invaders. we are racing towards the new front. with a comma june unit, the calls itself,

the picky blinders. northeast of their hometown. how do you hear that come in to turn on the electronic warfare? it's the one nearest the button because he means the jamming system to stop ending the drones 3 kilometers from the russian side. these men are not the only ones sound on tone commands. the screw, many of them used to play football together. there's even a father and his son of the while their focus is on vehicles. no enemy targets are safe. they use cheap improvise devices which can destroy the equipment worth, millions would you could the be any kind of target from an infantry meant to a tank. and that depends on what kind of explosive we've got here. so them with the

right payload. drones can even penetrate armor has another unit demonstrated in recent days. all systems are in place and the men start to search for target. and so they find a group of soldiers funny, but i'm not going to be there walking along the edge of the forest. i don't think they're going to come out. they will not stop. the russians are sitting ducks as we soon see 1st hand of school. i know you are good at you ought to do something too on. uh well, the soldiers at the other end of the trench make out the targets commander on toned flies. the attacks of his team have been in this area for 2 months already. well, before the recent russian attack just gives you to everyone heard the rumors of what was going to happen is just 6, triple our commander, set some tasks and that's a come on, let's see where there's a cluster of enemies. and with this a to find it and identify it up the certificate. on may 10,

the russians opened up this new front. in the beginning, the blinders killed dozens each day. now the russians are concealing themselves better and intercepting many of the ukrainian drones from gdc, the explosion, the yeah, there's a handed. let's get closer and take a look. it's an enemy truck. no sights assuming it's heavily damaged, but not yet destroyed. drones like these have completely changed the battlefield. they now destroy more hardware than any other weapon of the despite their simplicity. first person view drones are constantly evolving when he brought to full savings accounts. i started, this is already the 5th or 6th upgrade that's been added to these grounds. some of the steam, i'm constantly learning something they're reading,

communicating with others to stay current with the car, even as an old war horse, as they say, no harm in the waiting room. couldn't commander on tone, texas to a fellow unit close by. always wary of any of the drones that the commander in this fox hole is i'm tons of brother, sasha, mario consort. as we arrive, they began attacking the russian group spotted earlier. the better yet the okay, i'm going to guy. do the reset. now low someone, this is the biggest trainable. yes and from this side to church still home, boker she is a for the to it's pilot vitalis 1st combat about to 0 into the end of the most special, all here in the awesome right on target. restore the retail,

like you did great. pre owned work ship a check this out. no burning. 100. no, don't for another one. well, don't other on the interest, at least 2 soldiers. now they're trying to send an f, b v drones. but that seems at the moment they're running into issues with connection rather with the russian jeremy. but yeah, they send in drone after drone notices that end up crashing. so how could i share with going to this? what do i want to do my job as well? as possible, after doing it more because eliminating the enemy saves the lives of our boys. it's easier to book the book that shows a lot depends on this work i spent the night. so of course, so we feel the adrenalin means, there's no pressure deal. after overcoming the jumping problems, the ukrainians managed to kill or injure the entire russian assault. the peachy blind is used to be an infantry that they switched to kill them at drones. their role is less immediately horrifying now,

but it's still dangerous. when i push out creating below and about this, when the innovation began, it was much more difficult to deal with this filing, the mueller, everything was fine. it's unclear to me like during the 1st 6 months, but there was no physical or moral fatigue at all. but now it's chronic coordination. but we're holding on i left to little more government the wireless veterans as we finish talking. so as a reminder of the imminent danger, one of the people i just yes no move. they've heard of drone. that isn't, there's the rifles or the last resort. the who to a russian glance at kazi drones flew over. we started shooting at it. we didn't realize it right away. well, it's a powerful ordering drone when you're looking for equipment. how much room

this time it got away and we are told it hit a ukrainian vehicle of the south african. it's go to the polls tomorrow and what's being seen as the countries most closely followed election. soon as the transition to democracy, 30 years ago, parties including the largest opposition group, the democratic alliance have held their final campaign events ahead of wednesdays. vote within 50 parties are on the national ballot running for seats in the national assembly post suggests that the governing amc, which was once led by nelson mandela, could lose its absolute majority for the 1st time. since the end of apartheid, dw diane hawker looks at what's behind the widespread dissatisfaction in south africa. the smell of rubbish mixes with sewage. it's a powerful cocktail that residents have gotten used to living with. this is

a familiar site across south africa's township areas. we're meeting black citizens live president. so i'm a post. i've visited this area to campaign for votes. we joined team as the interested with residents listening to the consent this lifetime agency support to was happy to see room a poster. so he would tell him exactly how bad it is. yeah. a big guy. there's theses running through the streets. here's the sewage. water is flowing freely here, right now, quotes start done. we often don't have any electricity here. yeah. i mean, it goes off for long periods, one, even for a month, sometimes i big. those are the things that causes frustration that comes out by increasing this. also causing frustration is the countries high unemployment rates, 40 percent of people old enough to work with out drops

so that's what kids are also experiencing coupling electricity crisis. at its worst, some areas winds without power for over 8 hours a day. imagine paying 5 times the market price for a roll of toilet paper. that's what public probably, utility is gone with shutting out. it's been revealed that it was regularly overpaying for basic supplies. it's a kind of maladministration that has lift. so the african serious tend to have been used by business people with closer relationships to the amc to enrich themselves, leaving a litany of corruption skin for reasons like these, the amc is in big trouble because pre election polls suggest support for the party could even dropped below 50 percent and addiction those up cause

we know what's going to happen and the people in this whole and the people of south africa know in their own. and so what they're waiting to do in terms of giving the amc and overwhelming majority. but the majority of voters in this election on john south africa who grew up under the amc administration of the although housing, the water supply and sanitation may have improved during the lifetimes. they're unhappy about the poor economic prospects. well no try to look at, i don't have what young people won't vote for the i n c because we are unemployed because it will be painful to them because new policies are going to come and take notes from the vehicle that the new policies are responding to our needs as young people is that when the i n c seems to be stuck in the past, i the not looking after on somebody's how got court that unhappiness is expected to

cost b and c deals at the polls. the amc leadership sees the party has turned over a new leaf and should not be judged on past governments failures on the 29th of may. so that for tenants will give the assessment of when they think the agency can truly turn things around the and the 3rd time, but make sure to stay informed. stay engaged and stay in touch. follow our team on social media. our handle there is at do double your is if it is and leave is that lines you're looking for is always in our website, www. dot com for now though from the entire team here on the day. thank you so much for spending parts of your day by the

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