the, the, this is the, the, the news coming to live from berlin says ukraine is only a reversible path to membership leaders at the blogs 75th anniversary summit. also pledge billions and pressure aid. reason deliveries have helped to stall russia's offensive in eastern ukraine near the 2nd city customers. and as president joe biden to host the native gathering in washington, he faces growing calls to abandon his re election campaign after george clooney. a powerful fundraiser for the democratic party urges bible to leave the rates the

little em. terry martin, good to have you with us. a joint statement by nature is 32 members says that ukraine is on a quote, irreversible pass to membership of the alliance of the 75th anniversary somewhat. they also pledged 40000000000 euros of a to keep. next year us present. joe biden announced new air defense systems for ukraine and said the united states has agreed to temporarily place long range missiles in germany. some of those weapons were banned by treaty until recently. earlier i spoke about this with young less or he's a distinguished fellow with the german marshal finally gave us his thoughts on ukraine's path to becoming a native member. well, it's essentially a strong repetition of what the alliance is set for the last year. is to keep um there, there is not a timeframe and that made disappointments um,

but the reversible is a pretty strong word to use. uh the of course there are conditions that are associated with this that have to do with the form and ukraine. but also, i think for many allies simply the end of the war or, or at least a ceasefire, because it would be very difficult to envision membership for ukraine and all the commitments that go along with that under conditions of war. and that's what we have donated was announced the establishment of a new command center for ukraine, here in germany. how will that enhance operational capabilities? do you think? well, you're over the last year is most of the coordination of aid that's been sent to crime has been done by the united states through the russian process also in germany. and there is a desire to shift more of this to nato. i mean, partly i think to satisfy the american debate about brit and sharing. but also it's in a sense to make this a more collective exercise and to put the framework in place for europe to do more

part of that and use about whether the american commitment will be a study in the future of a part of it is simply about being more efficient and i think that's what the alliance has in mind with this book. manson, you mentioned the commitment in the future. many are concerned that donald trump may return to the us presidency. how might a potential trump presidency affect nato support for you? create as well. of course, you know, former president trump is a candidates, has said quite a bit about this. he is very keen to see more allied commitment to europe zone defense. and he's in a sense, skeptical about the current approach to ukraine, whether anything, changes in that regard is not entirely clear if you were to be elected. but even if he isn't elected, whatever the outcome there is going to be an intensifying debate about how to support and crane and what way we should be doing it and what to expect. and i

think in the near term what we have regardless of politics on both sides of both a source for the high tech and other materials that would be needed for, to rush into support as war effort. and, and there's a lot of focus on that. i think you know, the fact that kind of figures prominently in the communication that was issued at the, from the summit yesterday. that reflects this uh, the last summit in june. it started to talk more seriously about china is a systemic challenge to nato allies. the summit clearly goes much further awhile native leaders, we're meeting there in washington. china was holding joint military exercises with better routes just across the border from native, remember poland? is that timing? do you think your coincidence? you know, i suspect it isn't a coincidence, but i think the real focus is not so much. china, acting somehow in, in europe or ukraine's neighborhood is more about this, this a more distant but very important supply of technology and know how and other

things to rusher at the moment. but also for the next years behind that too. i think there is, you know, uh, a rather sharp uh, debate about what the rise of china means for europe in america, security. and that's become a tougher debate on both sides of the atlantic. and just to say, there are too many things, the democrats and republicans agree on in washington these days. a tougher line on china is clearly one of them. that's less of thanks very much for talking with us today. that was even less or distinguished fellow at the german marshal fund, talking to us from brussels. good to be with the following rushes, spring offensive with ukraine's 2nd city hockey in the cross hairs. and they 2 partners gave steve the green light to use the weapons they provided on targets inside the russian territory. now ukraine claims it's helped to stall, most goes offensive, which some analysts see as a turning point the aftermath of russian showing in the harkey region in early

may, initial gains by russian forces seems to catch you. crane off guard and raised appears that ukraine 2nd city hockey could be in danger, potentially paving the way for another attempt to seize keith. it's thought that moscow strategy may have been to force ukraine to move its forces from the battled town of cha, cpr on the eastern front to the harkey region in the north to enable a breakthrough in the don't. that's greeted the president below them. years of landscape, filed hockey, would not be allowed to fall and appeal to keeps the western allies to drop some of their limits on the use of missiles on russian territory. in response, ukraine's western backers including the united states and germany, looked at some of their weapons restrictions previously seen as a red line. the us said keith could now wire american made long range missiles,

known as attack comes across the border into russian territory where many troops are stationed directly on the other side. some analysts say it's been one of the bloodiest campaigns in russia's war on ukraine with up to hundreds of poorly trained russian soldiers being killed every day. but while ukraine and its allies focused on preventing hockey from falling russian forces did make advances in the east forcing the withdrawal of some ukrainian troops from cha, cpr. still cube has demonstrated it can adapt quickly maintaining its defenses and preventing russia from making deeper territorial gains. sketchup and a few other new stories today. ty, ones defense ministry says it's detected 66 chinese war planes flying near its territory aircraft were reported to be on their way to join drills in the pacific. uh with china is shun,

don't aircraft carrier. the exercises coincide with the us gathering of native leaders who have criticized beijing for enabling russia is more in ukraine. south korean president, you and sucky own, and japanese prime minister for me a quick she to have met on the sidelines of the nato summit. they agreed to continue security cooperation and voice concern over growing pause between russia and north korea. nato leaders are set to hold talks with the 2 leaders and counterparts from australia and new zealand. and president biden has met you. k is new prime minister for the 1st time at the nato summit bite and told cares dumber who was elected a week ago, that he sees britain as the not tying the transatlantic alliance together. as he was present, joe biden was seeking to demonstrate his leadership qualities at the nato summit.

pressure is mounting on him to a band and his bid for re election. a blow came from actor george clooney who was also one of the leading fundraisers for the democrats in the new york times, clooney roach. we're not going to win in november with this president. that's not just my opinion. that's the opinion of every sen. member of congress and governor, i've spoken to in private but slowly some of those opinions are making their way into public as well. democratic senator peter welsh of vermont has become the 1st senator to publicly call for president biden to withdraw from the presidential race . and in a tv interview form or us house speaker, nancy pelosi seemed to dodge the question of whether or not she backs biden's candidacy. she said the decision was up to him up to the president, just aside if he is going to run a we're all encouraging him to to make that decision because time is running short

of the i think, overwhelming support of the, of the call it's, it's not for me to say, i'm not the head of the clock is anymore, but he is beloved. he is respected and people want him to make that decision. as far as form and a professor of political science, how significant the pressure is on joe biden to drop his re election bid. this gets very significant. he's trying to play down. he has still a large part of the democratic party that's backing him up at least publicly. but as we hear from bloomers and here, so there is a lot of the term was in the democratic party and there's a lot of pressure on him. now george clooney, a leading biden's supporter, and up to this point at least, and democratic party donor, he's been scathing and his criticism of the president's reelection bid. can joe biden carry on with his campaign of donors like clooney don't support him?

i mean, clooney like many other double christmas has emphasized so much of a patriarch jewel by susan the president giving you was they emphasized uh, but uh they, they're seeing that he has a state. this has been an issue for a while and i think there's a, there's a great fear that maloney might the democratic party lose to donald trump and the kinds of repercussions this would have that, but also might lose some percentage of the house on the pallets. and so i think the sticks a very high and perhaps the hole in the by and comparing is the next week. there is the republican national convention that might take away some of the spotlight from, from by them. but i think the pressure is pretty high and the decision needs to be taken. so present button does have right now, the democratic primary boats to run as a candidate can those boats be taken away from him?

in theory, they can, i mean there's been a lot of assistance that she needs to agree with that. this is why people are trying to core tend to speak to him. but yes, it's nothing. the constitution that they need to be primaries. this is the invention of the post world war 2 moments that this was an attempt to democratize the selection process before that was 50 to part the leaves that were selected the candidates for the presidency. and so see radically, yes, the uh, the delegates even attached to the goods can be, can a can be released from their, from their plants and can make a different choice if by them decides to step down this what happened at the democratic national convention. so that was political science as boris for man speaking to me as a while ago it's for sale and england have beaten the netherlands to one in the semi finals of the euro. 2024 soccer championships here in germany. shelby, siemens opened the scoring for the duction just the 7th minute,

but then harry came fired in a penalty for england to make it one all. and in the 1st minute of added time, all the watkins sealed the victory and england fans went while the final whistle, the unofficial team anthem is coming home, rang out in london and all over the country, england face spain in the final on sunday. a dw is oliver moody was at the match in darkman. he says this england side has come a long way. england have to live at a lovely underwhelming performance a year or 2024 month. there was nothing underwhelming about the 91st minute window from ali watkins, his goals and funds in the ecstasy and england into the 2nd european championship final ever. and 2nd in a row. despite criticism of coach garrett south gates, he has now on the now i believe, let them to one of the most successful periods in the history with 2 finals and

a semi final the parents. in the last 4 major tournaments, there was still problems for england to fix to that best buy is harvey kane and jude belling and spill. look out of place in the system. but england finds what care about that tonight make throwing us interagency as a palestinian and driven on we don't expect much living with a bare minimum without civil rights and with no prospect. this is not a good environment. yeah, no no my children and favorite shadow starts oldest good on the w, the.