he takes for do the same ha themselves. and of course accusations against that ukraine on a dawes. are absolutely false. an an any use of chemical weapons? wool. totally changed in nature, older conflict. it will be at blatant violation of international law. ah, ah, it will have a wide spread consequences. and, of course, be extremely dangerous. and it will affect the people in ukraine. but there's also a risk that will have a direct effect on people living in nate, the countries. because her, oh, we can see contamination. we can see the spread of and chemical agents or biological weapons into our countries. and, and we also know that russia has used chemical agents against his own opposition.

and they have used it on the natal territory in solsbury before. and we also know that russia has facilitated supported and also there's even senior when they used chemical weapons against their own population. so this just highlights the importance of ending this war immediately because this is a dangerous situation. and therefore we impulses action. so is there for support? ukraine and allies agreed to supply equipment to help ukraine protect against the chemical biological read logical and nuclear threats. this could include the detection equipment protection on that it called support as well as training i for d contamination and crisis management. we are also enhancing our lies, says, preparedness and readiness for chemical and biological and new sets,

our top military commander, general walter's house, activated naples, chemical, biological or roger, logical and nuclear. the fence elements analysts are deploying additional chemical and biological and nuclear defenses to re enforce or existing and new backing groups. so we are taking measures both to support ukraine also to defend ourselves . we will go to al jazeera secretary general james bays from al jazeera presidents, zalinski when he addressed you recall the fact he 1st spoke to a month ago and he says he didn't get clear answers. so this time he asked you specifically for one percent of all your tanks, for one percent of all your aircraft, for multi launch rockets, systems, anti ship weapons and means of air defense. a very specific list. what is your clear answer?

we all listen very carefully to press on that and scan the men of the leaders in the room. ha ha to contact with him over these weeks. also spoke with him under under the kind of defense means participates in our the fence minutes. the only thing last week and we listened carefully on, of course, we took not to his but it, compassionate message to all nato. alice nato allies provide significant support to ukraine on the we provide also lethal weapons advanced systems and also systems that help them to shoot on planes and attack a battle tanks with anti thank a weapons. i'm in the older types over of systems including drones, are not to go into the details of the exact type of systems we are deploying this close conflict between ne, finalize and ukraine. but what i can say is that the allies do what they can to

support ukraine with weapons. so ukraine can defend themselves as self defense is a right and showing that to you and shorter. at the same time, we have a responsibility to prevent this conflict from becoming a full fledged war in europe involving and not only ukraine on russia, but nato allies and russia. that will be more dangerous and war devastating. and i think we have to be honest about that, and that's exactly what you have been in our meeting today. and also what i say today or in the press conference now. well, what we do is that we are delivering a lot of equipment. and that is an answer, but i'm not going to the details. i don't think that's a wise for operational reasons. if i leased that exactly, walked on when on how we are delivering oh, essential equipment to ukraine and $8.00. i have stepped up on this essential for

the progress they have been able to make in the fight against the invading russian forces. thank you very much, colleagues. i know there are many questions. i'm afraid the sector general needs to go to the g 7 meeting, but there will be other rethinks throughout the day. thanks so much. thank you. all right, we've been watching nato secretary general against oldenburg there, outlining the outcome of that emergency nato summit and brussels said there's been agreement on boosting nato defense in deterrence with more forces on land in the air at sea. and he also talked about the need to supply ukraine with more assistance. let's go right to our correspondent, alexander, phenomena who's been listening into that press conference for us. she's at nato headquarters, alexander, 1st of all, i'm tell us about what you took away from that. some of what we heard from yen, st oldenburg. we had expected, but what were the biggest take away for you? so maybe 1st of all,

we need to share the news that we didn't report on yet that the secretary general's tolten back is going to say on, on this position for one more year as so that is the new that was approved. this decision was made by the leaders today at that means also that the alliance is in the, to facing a major crisis. and they want says, told back who is an experienced and valued secretary general to stay on. and then when we talk about what he had to say during his press conference, i think it's important 1st of all, to just stress that what we have seen so far, nate. so adding 4 more battle groups to the 4 already in place in eastern europe, that is just the beginning. they're going to strengthen and expand their air defense and missile shields. there are going to to deploy more troops, more ships,

more jats at. they were quite clear condemning rushes war on ukraine in their statement. they are demanding russia to withdraw its troops to seize or operations on ukraine soil. they're also calling on china. this was significant to not support russia in any way, and also to condemn russia's war on ukraine. and they're also ready to, as you said, provide protective gear and medicine and other things to ukraine. or if there could be because there are more it that russia could use a chemical or by a g biological weapons there and sold them back. also stressed and the preferred that nato allies are now activating their defense units with regards to the potential use of such weapons of mass destruction and our center. could you just

tell us a bit more about what the insult burns had about further support for ukraine? there was a question about president salenti speaking directly to nato today, asking for fighter, just asking for more equipment. what did the secretary general say about what nato can provide? well, he didn't want to go too much into detail because of course they don't want to telegraph or what kind of weapons elyse will provide you queen with. and so we understood that a president zalinski address what sort of of critique also at that. and ukraine is not getting what they really need fighter jets. this discussion has been going on for 4 days or for more than a week now or more error defense systems more sufficient. once that is a what they need. zalinski is dressed and stolen back, acknowledged in his press conference after, at the leaders meeting. that allies will provide

a more assistance cyber attack or cyber defense assistance. as i said, for protection against a chemical, biological weapons and of course more conventional arms to ukraine beds. and he didn't really want to provide us with more details there. all right. alexander, for nomine for us there in brussels as they go on to the next meeting. the g 7 meeting. i thank you so much for that analysis, alexandra and we'll talk a little bit about it with melinda crane as well. melinda, we had speculate at the head of this press conference, what some of the measures are that might be taken by nato. what did you make of what we heard? well, one thing that i kept thinking about was the press conference given by secretary general stoughton back before the russian invasion began to remember him saying, directly to that and me put in, if you think you're going to get less nato by waging an invasion. in fact,

you are going to get more and he outlined a number of ways in which that is now absolutely being borne out. so he talked about the fact that nato member states will be meeting again in june to really make concrete, to their additional commitments on defense that something very relevant for this country. germany which has consistently fallen short of the 2014 target of 2 percent of g d. p. it has said it now will be stepping up even talking about going over that. but apparently that is now going to be nailed down in the gym summit. he also reaffirm nato's commitment to enlargement, saying that it has been very important. and that article 10 remains very or nor policy today. exactly. so again, more nato not less. and then very key, those things that alexander all just also just talked about, more battle groups, more of forces in the air, on the sea and so on. and. and very interesting was the question that he received about whether nato is now departing from the nato russian founding act. that in

fact, was an agreement between nato and russia, about essentially the limits on nato. he didn't answer the question directly, but what he did say is that circumstances have changed because of the russian invasion in international legal speak. that means russia has departed from its commitments under the founding act. and therefore, theoretically between the lines. nato also can do so. and we heard some similar, slight vision and none the less messages between the lines. when it came to chemical weapons, he was directly asked, what does he know about the use of white phosphorus bombs in ukraine? and what would nato think about that? and he basically, he didn't speak to, he didn't mentioned white phosphorus, but he did say that we absolutely reject and to pose any form of attack on civilians. and the key thing about white phosphorus,

it has an ambivalent status and international law. but if it is used in an area, there's densely populated, therefore, with a high risk of hitting civilians that is considered to be illegal under international law. so in a way, an indirect addressing that point as well. and interesting that he touch on the fact that the west certainly wants to put pressure more pressure on beijing as absolutely play bigger role to that message, to china. and by the way, also to bill a roost. also, quite interesting saying to china do not provide economic support, do not provide military support and get into the game here as a, as a potential mediator. china, of course, has made it pretty clear. it's not going to be doing that. but indeed, this was a very clear and direct statement is sent in the direction of china as well. okay, well it's can be interesting to see what else comes out of this big dave diplomacy in brussels with a g 7 meeting coming up. and then the you leader summit a little bit later. but melinda, thanks so much for that analysis. we'll be following up on that through the course

of the day. that is it for this news show. however, we will see you again at the top of the next hour. thanks so much for watching the w. ah ah ah,

[000:00:00;00] ah, [000:00:00;00] ah, just like news in europe this week to try to demonstrate unity with european allies of russia's invasion of ukraine. so we've come to the bonus, talk the german parliament here in berlin to speak to germany. transatlantic coordinators, man called michel link. i want to find out from him just how united the allies really are. and where the germany is really pulling its weight. michelle link, let's start with germany. it's been going through this huge transformation of it's a foreign and security policy just in the last few weeks since the war began

spending suddenly a 100000000000 extra euros on defense. how important is this moment for germany? it's an important moment for germany, but it's also a watershed moment for the european union. it's not only germany spending more, it's the european union for the 1st time setting up a, a program, a massive program where the united way, well, sort of where the european union is per chasing weapons. it's delivering weapons is even having a ready made standing force in the future in the strategic compa. so it's a watershed moment for berlin, but also for our union to some people around the world used to look at germany and sort of think of it as a sort of a big switzerland you know, country the like to make money and kind of keep it it's hands relatively clean.