[000:00:00;00] news, ah ah ah, this is either way, news line from bro nato puts up a united front, vowing to strengthen its eastern borders and send more a to you. great. at emergency summit secretary general. yes, dalton, birth calls rushes war on ukraine. the biggest security crisis in a generation and sells the alarm about russia potentially using convention, unconventional weapons. meanwhile,

not backing down ukraine's navy says it has destroyed a large russian landing ship off the port city of barrier. as it continues its fierce resistance to russia's invasion and in another geopolitical challenge, north korea test fires, a suspected intercontinental ballistic missile that lands and japanese territorial waters. tokyo says there may be a new type of missile and calls the firing an unacceptable act of violence. ah, hi everyone, i'm layla rock. thank you for making us part of your day. as the war in ukraine enters its 2nd months, nato leaders are vowing to send more military to keep and to strengthen the alliances. eastern frontiers at an emergency summit of alliance leaders in brussels

. secretary general william salton berg confirmed that nato will send 40000 more troops to eastern europe. and he also warned that russian use of chemical weapons in ukraine would quote, fundamentally change the nature of the conflict. on mister stockton burger said brushes, invasion of ukraine had created a new security reality. and welcomed pledges from alliance members to increase defense spending. one month since the start of russia invasion of ukraine natal security environment has from the mentally changed for the long haul. and we are responding. but the kids but security doesn't come for free and doing more will cost more. so nate to leaders agreed to read double efforts to meet the fence investment pledge we made in 2014 allies will submit additional plans on how

to meet the pledge in time for the madrid summit in june. and i welcome that the number of allies to day announced plans for significant increases in the fans spending at this dangerous time. johnson's hunt against it. and solitaire are vital europe on north america outstanding and will continue to storm strong together in energy speaking moments ago. let's take your to and nato headquarters and brussels correspondence. herschel is a standing outside terry. strong words from nato, secretary of fulton, berger at the press conference. what stood out for you. i think 1st of all, layla was the secretary general's acknowledgement of ukrainian president vladimir zalinski, impassioned plea to nato. to please send more weapons, give us more support. of course we know ukraine wants a no fly zone. we know nato continues to reject that. we know that ukraine wants

fighter jets from poland and other allies that have these mig 29th. so far, nato has not managed to send them and we don't even know where that request is at the moment. but secretary general's told hamburg said some allies did step up with more assistance for ukraine. and there was another interesting thing lately, you know, we've talked a lot lately about increasing concerns that russia would use chemical weapons inside ukraine. and the possibility that the impact from this could contaminate allied territories, just to de stilton burg, announced that the supreme allied commander for nato has activated a special task force inside it's rapid reaction. forces to look at how to protect allied populations, nato territory. in the case of a chemical attack. so that says to me that, that their concern is, is becoming ever greater. that russia does plan to use a chemical weapon. terrifying a prospector is the invasion of ukraine making nato rethink its options.

is certainly we don't see any sign that nato is rethinking going into ukraine despite what, what does still to burg has called painful decisions to do that when you hear the, the appeals of president solice and other ukrainians to give them more support. there is certainly no sign that there will be any nato boots on the ground. we haven't seen these fighter jets be transferred to ukraine yet, and certainly a no fly zone is still not on the table. and nato essentially not getting involved as long as no nato member is under threat. is that correct? that's right. yeah, that's right. and that's something that nato continues to repeat, that his job is to protect nato members. and of course, ukraine is not an ally. so what they continue to say is that they will be sending reinforcements to allied countries along the eastern flank. as you mentioned, there will be new battle groups in, in, for new countries. i'm and that is something that nato wants to create sort of a seamless deterrent effect along its eastern border to deter any thought by moscow

that they would step one foot into into nato territory. so that will continue. and the other thing that, that is new this week is that nato says, these are going to be longer term deployments. they were initially expected to be rotating deployments in these 8 countries. now he says, you know, the new, the new reality in europe, security means we're going to have to stay put there as long as russia's stance is, as it is today. and the secretary general had also a message for china know that's right at china was mentioned in the leader statement, put out at the end of the meeting and we've heard it. we've heard president biden, for example, and secretary general silverberg say this before. but once again, now in black and white, telling china to state out of this, to not respond to russia's request, to help supply a weapons or other technological capacities that it may be lacking due to sanctions . that the leader statement says china, you are a member of the un security council. your job is to try to keep the world peaceful

. and we expect you to do that. and in conclusion, to some final thoughts from you, terry, what is nato trying to signal to president? certainly, the message remains the same, even though president putin has not heated it so far and did go ahead with his invasion into ukraine. what, what says told hamburg? said today, numerous times was that putin has made a strategic mistake. obviously, the russian assault is not going as well as, as moscow had hoped. so. so nato is trying to make putin rethink this, possibly pull out of ukraine. we don't see any sign that is happening, but of course we do see that the russian tubes are either stalled or having to regroup, bring in more resources. so certainly this is a moment when nato feels it may be able to kick to convince president putin that this war is not going to be one. the ukrainians are doing much better than people expected. and i think while there is no diplomacy underway at the moment, they hope that in the kremlin people are rethinking, rethinking this war,

that they've launched their shells reporting from nato headquarters in brussels. terry, thank you very much. ukraine says it's navy has sunk, a russian landing ship in the occupied port city of birth, yonce. it comes as present of a lot of mra zalinski appeals to the world to take to the streets in a universal show of solidarity. russia continues to hit ukraine's major cities with air strikes and artillery, but ukrainians have prevented russian takeovers in several locations. the un says the conflict has already driven half of ukraine's children from their homes. in a hospital in cave, ali ice feeding her daughter victoria, who is just one month old. the baby survived russian shelling because her mother used her body as a shield. her father recounts how their apartment block was targeted. oh, sure. oh, good charlotte. i woke up because polio was screaming and it was accompanied by the

sound of glass crushing an alarm. fire. i catastrophe. ah, i just heard all your shouting turned over and threw a blanket over them. so cornered leisure, cuz attacks on residential areas, schools and hospitals have become a daily occurrence in the war with russian troops mostly stalled outside ukraine's main cities. they are resorting to bombing from afar. ukraine is fighting back. it's navy reported that it destroyed a large russian landing ship in the port city of bed at the youngest. a boost for ukraine's forces come in president viola demerits. zalinski is also working to build up morale, great, and garner, international support life, come to your squares. your streets, make yourselves weasel and horde. see that people matter. freedom matters piece, matters. you. great matters. rush is trying to defeat the freedom of old people in

europe of all the people in the world. it tries to show that only crude and cruel force metals. despite the destruction, russia has wrought. ukraine says it will not give up fighting. but the price of its defiance is a country laid to waste. we take you now to the ukrainian capital that is of you corresponds mathias brinninger is in keith mathias. how are things in and around keith? ah, yeah, we have just returned to key. if we've been away for a week in with western part of the country and in the mood has changed slightly here. um we see more shops open. for example, addresses are open now they used to be closed. um, most of the shops are still closed, but a few more businesses are operating. you see more people on the street, you see more traffic. so it feels like the city is making its way back to normalcy

in very small steps. it is of course, still a city in an extraordinary situation. you can still hear shelling and in day time and at night or from the outskirts the ukrainians have driven the, the russians a bit further away from the city. that at least what we hear. but the fighting is close enough that you can hear it if you are in the city center. however, it seems to be like at the trent simself shifted a little bit. that's the feeling here on the ground. that's really interesting that perspective that you bring us there at mathias. what does that tell you? is there growing optimism that they're able to hold off a russian troops from capturing a key as the mood at the moment? um, the russian troops have tried to capture key if everybody understands or, or estimates that there's, that was that top priority to capture key of quickly decapitate the government. and

it has not worked. moreover, while russian troops have advanced to these places around key of where they are now quite quickly, they have an almost been unable to make any gains within ah, 3 weeks or so. and we've also seen some signs that they are digging trenches now that this is moving towards a war of attrition rather than an invasion or law or in advance. and that's obviously something that gives people here the hope that the russians might, that ukraine might be able to catch. you drive the russians out in the end or 2 or 2 to create a situation. terry has said this before or where the russians would understand that they could not achieve their goal. and then in not negotiations they could be convinced to leave the country. that's the hope. now it's still not where we are.

it's nothing that people expect to happen in the next few weeks or so, but it's something that could be a possible outcome in the longer term. there's very careful, but some optimism is here. very cautious. optimism indeed, unfortunately, and in other parts of ukraine, russian strikes have repeatedly hit a soft target. so mostly a civilian a targets on is this the main tactic that is being employed by a russian at military and other parts of ukraine. it looks like this because the shelling has been much too massive. the shelling of residential court as in mary o paul. and hark of has been too massive to see this as an accident and a lot of people have died. of course. um, it's a, it seems to be a tactics to d, motivate the people there to pressure people into submission or to make them leave the cities in order to, to choose to make it easier for the military to capture them. all these are

theories what could be behind it. what we know for sure is that it is a tactics that russia has used before. russia has massively bombed grossly the capital of chechnya. in the 1990s, russia has massively bombed a leper the stronghold of the opposition in syria, with no regard to civilians are hospitals bombed, kindergarden school was bombed systematically. so um there, there are no illusions that this might be anything else, but deliberate level, corresponding mathias vending reporting from k. thank you very much. thank you. let's take a look at the other developments in the war. a reporter working for an independent russian website has been killed in keith, news outlet. the insider said asana. belinda died when russian forces shelled a suburb where she had been filming damaged from an attack. at least 5 jones have

now died since russian troops invaded ukraine. 4 weeks ago, the head of the international committee of the red cross, peter mar, has held talks with russian foreign minister, sergey lab, ralph in moscow. the red cross president told russia it must abide by international laws on humanitarian conduct in war. mister mar also plans to discuss the issue of prisoners of war with defense officials. also with the problem by the german parliament is awaiting a relief package announced by the government in response to spiraling energy costs that have been triggered by russia's invasion of ukraine. the measures include a 3 month reduction in fuel tax and a discount on public transport. with the un estimates that 10000000 people in ukraine have flipped their homes about a quarter of the population, while many have found shelter and other parts of ukraine. more than 3 and

a half 1000000 people have left the country altogether. while now a small number of ukrainians are returning w 20 fisher reports from leaf they escaped horror. the last trach boarding, one of these trains to poland. the you been to a to grandchildren took 4 days to get here from how to keep a city heavily bumped though mom last bleckley at home. and balak leah in the hockey region. horrible things are happening. there were bombings, dead bodies lying around in the village for day 2 villages were completely destroyed. is it that a little she is lewis, says emily, her grandchild, 16 year old carroll doesn't know if he will ever return to ukraine. delicious. i will stay with my parents on poland. i will study and live there somehow, such as the images of people fleeing ukraine, most of them women and children in great. however,

a small but growing number is headed back to ukraine. most of them men are ready to fight, but his estimated one in 5 is a woman. a woman like lilia, a designer, she fled from keith on the day the war began to france. now she's back. now much leave all. it's impossible to leave my team behind award for them, but i need to give people jobs 0 in the future. yeah, that's why i'm here. them. we had thought only of, of my return is about supporting ukraine. and those who don't know whether to return on what to do, how to live with the dye, li, shaken by the brutality of this war, she says she wants to secure jobs for her team, or had to flee from keith. she's able to give work again in this wedding dress factory, she found a temporary workspace message louse fusion on my message to all women who are abroad on who may think about returning. and what to do here is just all i want to

tell them. shawn, we have the strongest men in the world, we essentially vicky with him. we will win and can overcome any things the lion long. despite the optimism, the war is present here to our interview interrupted by era. silence is now so there it siren again. ah, we shot them was her girls if you want to go down go either the over him. i had samples. i really i am on. yeah. yeah. will use, i'm afraid because it's unpredictable. but that the car supplied sun, nebraska's oil, duck a lamb. we need to stay alive for those of us at the factory, you can be a target to lee explains as we had to the bunker. but just how responsible is it to ask others to return to ukraine out lilia makes clear, odin with boy,

danny. though everyone is responsible for their own actions and put in my la addition on the 7th, and everyone decides for themselves what they do. the see what they say, the choices they make, what ukraine means to them, okay. you know, all right, and this is my choice, yarbrough on that a stock and the consequence of their choice of leaving or returning plays on here at this train station in levy. jenny mathers is an expert in russian politics and security at aberystwyth that university in that u. k. and she joins is now. thank you so much, professor for taking the time to take our questions. i'm. we're marking a month into this sir unprovoked war, and it seems like the russian invasion has stalled. why do you think that is? i think there's 2 reasons, really. the 1st is the resistance of the ukrainians,

and they have been you know, fantastic. really in putting up a strong fight against the russian invaders. no civil society has rallied around, most of the strength of the ukrainians has been a major part of why russia's invasion, hist, all. but of course, the other side of that is the, the quality of the russian strategy and the russian forces of the preparation or the, or apparently the lack of preparation. because what we've seen is that they were apparently prepared for just a very short operation. they expected to meet very little resistance. they expect to be able to get straight to the capitol, remove the president, replace them with a puppet regime and, and rule the country not way. and when that didn't happen, they didn't seem to be capable of switching strategies to a different way of operating and supplying their troops sufficiently in order to do that. now, unfortunately, we've got the specter of chemical or biological warfare looming large on

present. so lensky has accused russia using phosphorus of bombs in ukraine. if, if that is the case with this mark, a new stage in the war and ukraine. i think it does. i think also it's worth remembering that, you know, putin has defied all logic and expectation of what we would expect russia to do in order to, you know, maximize his advantages in order to try and, and, you know, gain the kinds of victories that are achievable in the circumstances he's thrown that route, look out the window. and so the problem is we really don't know what to expect next from him. so yes, you are more frightening weapons crossing lines which are, you know, regarded as international taboos. unfortunately, we can't rule those things out any longer. has it become impossible for present

prudent to retreat? it's not impossible for him to retreat, but he probably regards it that way if that makes sense. so in other words, he could certainly find a face saving way out if he wanted to. the problem is there is no evidence whatsoever that he is interested in backing down. the only limitations on what he's willing to do seems to be with capacity with the, with the resources that he's got. you know, the constraints provided by what his, his soldiers are willing and able to do, rather than any sort of moral or ethical issues or even any sort of, consideration of, of, you know, cost benefit analysis. what he's gone too far. he doesn't seem to have that sort of a, of a boundary in terms of this war. and the final thoughts in a few words, if you can. i mean, i know it's very difficult because, you know, we find ourselves at a time of great uncertainty. people are talking about the possibility of world war 3,

breaking out the use of nuclear weapons. is this war going to up and everything that we know? it's definitely a watershed. it's so watershed in terms of, you know, how the post cold war world is developing. and you know, certainties that we thought we could rely upon over the last 30 years have suddenly vanished. so although, you know, we, we still hope very much that the, the taboo against the use of nuclear weapons will remain. nevertheless, as i said, it's a putin has gone to the stage where outside observers are having it very, very difficult to try and predict what he might do next. because we simply don't know what he would rule out. jenny, math, or is the expert in russian politics and security at avarice with university. thank you very much for taking our questions. very illuminating one is, are you but other news now we're, north korea has fired

a long range missile in what japan is calling an unacceptable act of violence. japanese defense officials say it may be a new type of intercontinental ballistic missile. took care says the projectile flu for over an hour and landed some 150 kilometers off japan's west coast in the countries territorial waters. if confirmed it would be pyongyang 1st intercontinental ballistic missile test. since 2017 an earlier dw spoke to correspondent frank smith, and so we asked him why north korea has launched a long range missile successfully for the 1st time for years. right now. 3 were, you know, the world's attention really is captured by what's going on with the war in ukraine . and a lot of people might think this has something to do with that. i'm not really sure that's the case. well this is, you know, it's been for years since north re launched a long range intercontinental ballistic missile. it's done 12 missile tests. so for

this year, if we go back to, you know, when north korea previously launch such a missile back in 2017 or so in 2018, it had a summit. kim johnson and the leader of north korea had a summit with former us president donald trump. there kim agreed to spend essentially a moratorium on long range missile launches in nuclear tests. he's kept his word so far in return. he expected a change in what north recalls the hostile policy of the united states. specifically, mercury is talking about the sanctions of the united nations security sanctions that remain on north korea. otherwise, right now we just had an election here and so create a new conservative president. that vows to take a hard line with north korea you and so fuel has come to power here. so this is also a message to south korea and to the united states that it wants to see some negotiations

on sanctions relief. after 4 months at the international space station, german astronaut went to yes, mama has finally had his 1st chance to experience a space. walk. mister, mar. exit at the i s s. together with his american colleague, raj, r, cari and spent 6 and a half hours floating in space. well, during the space walk, the 2 astronauts repaired, a cooling system were placed an important camera and installed a new electric and data cable. to install you're watching the avenues here as a recap of our mean story. nato secretary general, yes, don't work, has called russia's invasion of ukraine, the quote biggest security crisis in a generation that a crisis, somebody end russell's, he warned, of russia potentially using chemical weapons. he set the alliance with some $40000.00 additional troops to eastern europe. he also promised to send more

military aid to ukraine. and ukraine's navy says it has sunk a large russian landing ship off the occupied port city of birth, yachts. it comes as russia bombards ukraine's major cities with air strikes and artillery presidents, water zalinski, as urged people around the world to protest and rally for peace. on layla, herancha in berlin on behalf of the entire team. thank you very much for making this part of your day. denise continues right here.

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