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beirut. ah, this is al jazeera, let's get around. now the top story, u. s. president joe biden has arrived in poland, where he's meeting some of the more than 2000000 refugees who fled there from the war in ukraine. earlier in brussels. he struck a deal with the e. u to reduce the blocks reliance on russian gas rushes. defense ministry says the 1st phase of what a cause is. special operation in ukraine is complete, and that's in the separate as controlled areas of the don bass region. russia says it will now focus completely on that area and is not ruling out storming, besieged ukrainian cities. rushing, shelling has struck the international airport in ukraine, 2nd biggest city of hawkins. the airport and surrounding areas came on to heavy bombardment overnight on thursday. these pictures from airport surveillance cameras show the moment it was bombed, in a separate instead of the official se 4 people queuing for humanitarian aid were

killed when they were hit by a russian strike. at least 300 people were killed in last week's bombing of a theatre in matthew polt, that's according to ukrainian officials in the poor city. more than a 1000 people were sheltering in the theatre when it was struck by a rushing strike. a few 100 were rescued. north korea's leader says he's preparing for a kind of confrontation with the u. s. after testing its largest ever continental ballistic missile state tv ad footage of the launch of the miss saw the flight data shows flew higher and for longer than in previous tests. the missiles able to strike the us with analysts thank can reach targets. 15000 kilometers away. those are the headlines you up today. we're back in often out right now. it's the stream on counting the calls, european nations boost military spending. will defense john's reach the profits.

the war in ukraine is straining call industry supplies. so all vehicles getting more difficult to fly and kind of google's underwater cables bring internet access to millions of africans, county the coast on al jazeera with . welcome to the story mom, josh, rushing in for for me. ok. the u. m says more than $1000.00 civilians have been killed in ukraine since russia invaded the country a month ago. now u. s. president joe biden and other nato leaders have pledged more military hardware to ukraine, while also agreeing to strengthen the military blocks eastern defences. today we look at what nato and the e used next steps mean for people in ukraine in eastern europe. mikayla thorough, be off, send us this video, comment about ukrainian public opinion on the nato alliance. law julia

are nato claiming that he does not support in the ukraine. your dear rob asian person forum. busy long lines all over your great family because a while back and i needed to do a for the other here or there to increase their market was special or the law can do for yes, society for there are killed just about 40 percent off. now we all 3 for i'm joining studio by al jazeera senior correspondent, alan fisher. hunter celeste as a director of security programs at the foreign policy councils ukrainian prism. she's in the ukranian city of odessa and ragna schaler is the program director and international affairs at kerber foundation. she is in berlin. oh yeah. one more

seat at the table. hey that you. if you're watching this on youtube, she that box over there. we have a live stream producer waiting to get your comments to me so i can get them to our guest and you too can be in the stream. allen, can you give us some of the top lines coming out of the nato conference in brussels today? i saw it called a couple of really big meetings going ahead in belgium over the last few hours and will continue for the next few hours as well as far as joe biden. this concerned that the big message is that the united states is ready to accept up to 100000 refugees into the united states. that will get some pushback from, from summing in washington. his cold for the removal of russia from the g 20 says that that's the decision to be made by the g 20. but clearly he's very keen on that idea that as you said, the, the going to strengthen me to his eastern flight, which probably means more troops to the baltic countries and also to poland. i and

then a perhaps unwittingly suggested. there's a gap in his schedule on friday. he's spending a few hours in poland. he's going to go and speak to humanitarian workers. but it seems that he may well be looking for an opportunity to meet president to lensky a, if from what he said that that certainly with what he was pointing at. that might change because the secret service don't like the present flagging. this sort of thing up, the been trying to keep under wraps, but don't be surprised if the 2 them meet at some point. wait, wait, wait, where would they possibly me possibly close to the border? i mean, these things aren't left to chance. secret service will be on the ground, seeing where there's possibly somewhere that they can meet safely, maybe even in poland itself, although zalinski would not be keen on the idea of being seen to leave poor. but just in the way that joe biden almost slipped up, don't be surprised if the 2, the meet to morrow is known for those kind of slip ups. i refer for honest about

ron. yes. okay, give me your take on this. think i'm a cookie. russia out of the g, 20 less diplomatic connections with russia is at the way forward here. i mean, we don't know what we know is that the west has to stay stand united. and i think today was a very important day for this because we had the natal summer, we had the european council going on. but also the, the summit of the g 7 leaders all off which send a united and a strong message to the world saying we stand with ukraine. i want to get back to though to the, the video you short in the very beginning where macola said ukrainians have been disappointed with ne, to i think what's important to, to consider is that nato members are really treading a fine line between showing support to ukraine and not giving material for further escalation to, to the russian leadership. and this is a very cool, very difficult situation. we're all in and present and ski addressed. ah, nato leaders today asking for more of that military hardware. we have

a bit of video from that. can we play her sound like was green, and in my blue little did i give ukraine does not how powerful anti missile weapons and has a much smaller aircraft fleet than russia. therefore, their advantage in the sky is the use of weapons of mass destruction. and you can see the consequences today how many people were killed. how many peaceful cities were destroyed. ukrainian army has been resisting for months in unequal conditions . and i have been repeating the same thing for months now to save people and our cities, ukraine needs military assistance without any restrictions that she just thought for anybody that we you know, ha, jones has been really critical of nato in the last week or so. but just in the last day or 2 is, is he changing his tone a little bit and if so what, what, why, what, what's behind that? yes, exactly. if you heard today's speech,

he had the rhetoric change, he was not criticizing natick was not demanding something. he was not telling that the mate even guilty. one of the reason he's bad, ukrainian, expert community be in quite an active trying to explain that don't make the positions of the individual states was natal don't request from nato as an organization. what it cons provide because like weapons that we ask in nature cannot provide weapons a weapons that is the national government restroom stability. he'll let us germany why germany doesn't want to do it or let us, calgary, why it is blocking certain the oper chaise us, but don't tell it to nature because what nature is doing. they did it quite a well, and today we heard the change of the rhetoric, both from the presidents and from the nato officials, by the way, as well. because if you heard stole to bill for a last 2 weeks, he was telling only natal can not do it. and so are we all we said or k, we know what you can tell us what you can or what you already do because definitely need to be in training, ukrainian armed forces. we will not be able to fight as we are doing it now.

without that 8 years of training, nate to help with logistics with the supply chain was communications with the cybersecurity with grant are the thanks for the trust funds through the advisors that brought us to the citation we and now many countries gave us just 3 days. we are already of the day 28 of these were not ragna. speaking about the way nato feels about this, a new survey just came out in the last 24 hours. i believe on how germans feel about this. and if i could show my computer, and we had this survey that shows last year when asked, should germany stay involved in international crises in the future? you had about 50 percent, so there should be more restrained. so kind of down the middle there. whereas this year or same question, 67 percent now say that germany needs to be more involved. this is aligned with new administration and the greater military spending that were saying in germany. a 2nd

question should germany become more independent from the united states in a security policy? and right now you have something around 76 percent, same more independent. so i can you suss these 2 out for me because one seems to say more engage, which would directly be through nato. and us be a major part player there. and then 3 quarters are saying, but do it in a way this more independent from the you us? absolutely, and thanks for bringing this up, i will say a few words about both of them must. i think the 1st one is really significant and it's a, it's a historic shift in german public opinion. so you had these so called silent vendor speeches in the german bonus tag, germany pledging to really spend 2 percent of g d, p on defense in the coming years, which is sick nic, and it makes germany the 3rd largest military spend the on earth it's, it's hard to imagine, but what comes with this is really a different also strategic role in the world,

and this will require intense contact and discussion also with the society that has not been used to this. so this, the change in public opinion is significant, but it will have to be maintained and it will take effort from the government to really i'm engaged with, with the society on these questions. regarding the 2nd a graph you, you showed you see that a large majority majority in germany says they want to europe to become more independent from the united states than in fact, there was a sub question asking why and up to 50 percent of people said, because we fear that the u. s. will withdraw from europe in the foreseeable future . so the trump legacy is still being felt in, in europe, but for, for europe to really take its fate into their own hands and to become more independent and more, more active on the world stage. it needs military spending and better,

but it also needs strategic thinking and, and exchange with, with partners on this. and there's still a lot of homework to do. i want to bring in the foresee to the table here you to we have a handful of comments, allen, i'm going to toss these to you. may we just do a round robin hoss an issue and says e u has filled ukraine, but not providing of support. terence korea says why ukraine cannot become a neutral country. russia will never be comfortable with nato on the border. and andy warrior says, one of the chances of conflict, morphing into war worth 3, i think there's an an element of relief which might be too strong award. that for the moment this war is contained as contained within the borders of ukraine. we're hearing people call for a no fly zone. that's not going to happen. joe biden doesn't want to put americans directly up against the russians because then that has the potential to become a much wider conflict. so you're not going to see no fly zones being implemented at the moment, but if they can continue to support the ukrainians with directly going up against

the russians. both the united states, anita, we're quite happy to do that. can i bring up that their strategic ambiguity? which means for a nation rather than drawing a red line in the sand that says if you crossed us, then we escalate. there is no line and you don't know what the other side necessarily considers an escalation. how calculated is it for the us to know what russia will consider an escalation in an escalation? and they've been relatively good with their intelligence up to this point. remember, before the war, they said the russians are going to do this, and the russians did follow that playbook on it. what is it is concerning for the vitamin ministration is using the phrase red line. if you go back to when joe biden was less than the white house, he was vice president under barack obama. barack obama said, absolutely a red line of the city and use chemical weapons in syria. then we're going to take action. hey, the salience used chemical weapons. what did obama do? nothing. then obama looked weak. joe biden doesn't want to give that political

advantage away. so you will never from this white house here any senior official. see on the record. yet there's a red line here. i want to pull an, a clar, a little a go for on a gun. yeah. just as much about the red lines. you know, i hear you need to understand that sometimes it's not about the actions, but about the perception of the actions. because as you, i see now, or want to be a western countries, a pain, poor with weapons and was mighty on that speakers, they were so careful as they perceived it. and so eager for the dialogue for the previous 8 years since the annexation of crimea, there were a lot of research. now that i argue these, i'm saying that maybe you put sanctions where the annexation illegal annexation of crania in 2014 would be stronger. probably mister putin will think twice, or at least on oligarchs around he will think twice about sponsoring based project . because s one. now what we're hearing like are k a, let's ukraine become a neutral ah, lads ne,

to go further because that is the red lines for the russian federation. so don't support ukraine. and russia would be nice again, but sorry. ukraine was the neutral in 2014. it didn't prevent her trembling from actions. and it didn't prevent bab one mom to go to here. it seems to me that sometimes we are manipulating with the issues of red blinds for the russian federation. and what can provoke them, what cannot provoke them? are the actions of mr. booting and rhetorical theory, he is features, especially those who can understand rational and which i can hear the wording and notions that he's using. they became very irrational and they are not according to the lords you or some type of the real political aberdeen. here's what dad and they don't slumber had to say today about this. so we are, we set think nato so turns and defense florida long term with more troops or with the more air assets on more maritime capabilities. we have older the

increased our presence in the east and today with this arden for new battle groups on that the leaders agreed to tall sco mentor commanders to provide options of for a long term reset. though our press and saw remitted their poster in the eastern part of the lines on across the whole alarms, ron you, when fulton berg says that they're going to reinforce the eastern flank of nato, is, is he speaking specifically about the baltic states in that, that small connection here, i have a map, let's show our viewers a map here. if we go to my computer, this is nato. you can see the darker colors to left for the earlier countries. and now it's been encroaching easterly and as all the way up into the former soviet states that the baltic states which are connected. and i'm gonna put my mouse over this for you guys. that's about a 40 mile border right there. and it's a weak spot in the eastern flank of nato. so are we talking about moving troops there? and this is starting to sound. i mean, it has always been

a military organization, but it also kind of feels a little bit like a sleeping giant waking up in force is actually coming into play that have only been terrorized for a long time. can you touch on that run you? sure. i mean, we're talking about the bowl takes, but we're not only talking about the bowl takes. nato already has 4 battle groups in place in the 3 baltic countries as well as in poland. that's about where you, your mouse was hovering, but to day still to mac was announcing the deployment of for more. a battle groups her the in the south of beast and flank, namely in romania, apple, garrison, lakia and hungary, which means that there will really be battle groups from the baltic sea to the black sea. so from north to south, on the, on the eastern side and what he means by resetting defense, if kind of waking up that sleeping giant that you were talking about. so, so far what we've seen is the thought of a defense by presidents though, you knew the nato was there, nato troops were there, but he didn't really see them. what we're moving to now is something called more

defense by denial or like defense deterrents by actual defense making, clear that nature will not seed one inch that the phrase you might have heard of its territory. i saw an ad regardless of laterally. what are those shifted a jumping on? yeah, you know about the blood. see the problem being that the nater didn't have the nato, our black, his tragic g. and we've been arguing for the necessity for the last 10 years. at least even have in 3 are literal states as the nato members and the even while ear washer and bigger military are present, started to be the baltic steel, the black sea be in the absence. and the russian federation for the last here really increased the or actions in mary time to me. we experience it with the provocations with the war of exercise this with the disturbance of navigation. so plenty of activity has been happening there to many countries of the region,

especially romania, been it really saying that we need greater presence of nature here. the same georgia and ukraine was insisting nato finally to decide if the black sea part of may talk or just the neighboring territory. and it seems to me that with these washer of the, for additional battle grill, nato finally made a decision that they would like to present their that jerky alone will not be able to are from the russian federation. are otherwise, you understand perfectly georgia left without navy after 2008 to our war with the russian federation. bulgarian navy is very, very weak and remain. it is not bad, but still quite a week comparing to what russians had to ask for. now when we have additional courses and a better additional responsibility for such countries as france, for example, who's moving to their aircrafts to romania? that would mean that finally on nato countries understand the importance of the maritime domain, not less than the b. r. use term plan to add to the land of border with the russian very shoot. just to pick up on that point. well,

me tool never use the freeze red line. there is a red line of thrushes go too far, then they will respond. what they don't want to tell the russians as we're about red line, is because there's a concern that vladimir putin will push as close as he possibly can to that and try to provoke some sort of reaction. he doesn't want to get involved in a fight with me to either, so he's got to guess we have that red light is so that puts him slightly ease, clearly if, if ill at ease rather clearly, if he attacks a nato state, if, if, if military forces cross a line into a baltic state that triggers article 5. and it's, it, it's a red line. nato has to respond. but what about something more of a gray area? what about a cyber attack? but then there would, there will, could be a response, and that, that's a way of engaging the russians if they attack through cyber capabilities. and they're already testing in the united states. we had that from from jake sullivan, the national security advisor earlier this week done at the white house. i was there when he said, add that they are already seeing those tests being made. they're looking for

weaknesses. and he said, absolutely. they've said for a number of years that a cyber attack on one could provoke a response from every one. if there was an attack or an anita country. it's degrees if it's just a couple of shorts being fired across the border. if it's more to run going across the border, will that then bring all of nato against russia unlikely because they don't want to escalate this. as i see it's kind of contained at the moment within the ukrainian borders. and it's about more than just the military harbor on the ground. nato's also about a set of values i want. i want to bring in a comment from catherine. right. she's a senior lecturer in the international politics at new castle university. what we should be looking for his name, stacy, hold insurance, the re, a fan, the values underpinning the alliance, including human rights, the rule of little democracy and individual liberty. and that's because this is a rule. so i piece in, not just in terms of territory,

again the names hands of valleys and is that attack on west and valleys which nato should be responding to a and defending we have a comment from pillow wise and you to that says, what does putin really want and ukraine, al, he, he really wants to go after those values right after an alliance a western alliance. he wants to see the western, the lines, nato, the european union, disjointed, not together. and joe biden, to a large degree when he came into office, said that he wanted to reunite international alliances that had been disrupted by the previous president until degree. he's done that and you can see that in the way that there has been a united response along the way in that sanctions have been imposed almost in unison. because he understood the idea that everyone had to be comfortable with the sanctions. and they all had to go at the same time so that there was no like we actually have a president by and on that right now. and we by prune was banking on late,

obey split my early conversation to the december and early january was clear to me . he didn't think we could sustain this cohesion. nato has never, never been more united than it is to day prudent is getting exactly the opposite, what he intended to have as a consequence of going into ukraine. so, ragna, does it seem like pohden has actually made nato closer and stronger than it was before. in a way, definitely, i think lots of unintended consequences happened in the west that, that didn't foresee it's, it's the unity of nato. it's all things that happened within the european union that were unimaginable just 6 weeks ago. also the, it's direct shift and german security policy that i mentioned. i want to say one word about foods, motivations, though, i mean, in the end we, we don't know what he wants. unfortunately, i think only putting himself knows what he wants,

but what we do know is that he thinks in, in historical terms. and part of his mission seems to be to correct some of the what he thinks, mistakes that have been made after the, the end of the cold war. and that he kind of wants to re unite and soviet states referring to ukraine, referring to better route. but also to george, i'm older and, and others. and this is why this is not only about ukraine, but this is really about defending the west and defending western values. throwing us we all a proposal said i wonder what the international community can do. i want to hear from a voice in ukraine about what they believe the world could do to help. this is demetrius sugar. he's a european program director at the international renaissance foundation and ukraine . the world can help to stop his blood. the russian war in ukraine by 2 ways. first way is to help you bring in the military to crush the russian military force here by providing ukraine with modern weapons. a 2nd way is to crush russian

economy by sleeping really devastating sanctions. and without this, it is difficult to speak about finding a new, sustainable diplomatic solution because rotten demands are not for compromise, but for surrender of ukraine. and their demand for neutrality basically means sir. and mindful, isolated in ukraine to move to the left without allies. so is unacceptable. honda, how does this war and oh, we will, we, and we survive. that's for sure. it, you need to listen ukrainian and some to understand what is in the dna. and definitely 2 words that very important for the ukrainian identity, that is freedom and dignity. and that was very difficult to understand, to mr. brewton. i, because honestly, i like you asked me to put in wants to, i would say bad. there were 3 things to humiliate nato. we definitely see it from his statements are to restore the soviet union,

but in some crazy meat of soviet union and russian empire. and this 3rd one is just to you on how to said in the polite words, but to, to crash ukrainian identity and serenity because that's been really crazy for him. how racist is statements about ukraine ukrainian states will always be. so why did you unite these crazy paranoia dull wishes of mr. wouldn't you understand that for ukraine will be important? not only our military supports and economic sanctions that withdraw perfectly describe, but also one very important thing for the western countries to believe in ukrainian to trust of what you pronounce. a telling about the citation. because in the beginning of the word, you know, what was the biggest fear of ukrainians, not the mighty of the russian army, but that i will west them partners would may cost to surrender because they will be afraid all law, the crumley and the add the actions of the russian armed force. all right, hon. i got in the 3rd. thank you so much for that. final thought. that's all for

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