ah, ah ah, this is dw news line from berlin, more united than ever. that's the message from us president joe biden on nato as the war and ukraine enters its 2nd month at an emergency summit. biden says, the united states and its allies are determined to help you craniums resist moscow's assault. he also says russia should be booted out of the g. 20 also coming up on the counter attack, ukraine's navy says it has destroyed a large russian landing ship off the port city of bridge. the vessel had been used

to supply russian troops with armored vehicles and north korea test fires, a suspected intercontinental ballistic missile that land and japanese territorial waters. tokyo says it may be a new type of missile and calls the firing and unacceptable act of violence. ah, am abby cor lawson? welcome to the program. you as president joe biden is in europe to discuss the ongoing collective response to russia's invasion of ukraine with allies, the e u. g. 7, and nato are all meeting. not only to send a united message to the kremlin, but to impose and strengthen penalties on russia for its attack on a sovereign nation. biden says russia should be removed from the g 20 and has you asked ukraine to attend the group's meetings. he also says his country is ready to

help europe resettle $100000.00 refugees in america and provide an aid package of $1000000000.00 to europe. and by reiterated that nato is more united than ever. good was banking on nate. obey split my early conversation with him in 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 today. prudent is getting exactly the opposite. what he intended to have as a consequence of going to new craig on these new correspondence, her shoulder is at the alliance headquarters and brussels. terry. good to see you. now. biden's says nato is more united than ever before. he's in europe to show his solidarity with allies, but the alliance has made it clear once again that it will not directly intervene militarily. that's right, abbey, nothing's changed on that. president biden said that nato had achieved all of his

goals in the beginning, and that is to impose harsh economic sanctions on president putin, to build up his own eastern flank and to help ukraine militarily and financially. but as you said, that does not involve putting any nato soldiers inside ukraine. it hasn't even meant getting fighter jets to, to key of as, as a president lensky has repeatedly asked and asked again today, but nato staying united president biden was very bullish on that. now in terms of china, he also spoke of china, do you have a message for beijing, terry? that's right. he said that he had spoken with president she about a week ago and made clear to him and bite and said, you know, it wasn't a threat. but i, i made sure that he understood that his, his goals to, to draw closer economically to the e. u to the european union and to the united states would be put in jeopardy if it

were to support russia. he said he made that absolutely crystal clear, and that european commission president ers of ursula underline, would be delivering that message again to china in the coming days. so a president biden as secretary general yen stoughton break, putting china on the spot to say, we know that russia is asking you for support. and we're telling you that's a very bad idea. what falls into part of what stolen berg had to say about nato's new security strategy. today nathan leaders agreed to reset our turns on defense for the longer term to face and use security reality. online. we will have substantially more forces in the eastern part of the lawrence at high yield redness, with more pre positioned equipment and supplies. in the air, we will deploy more jets and strengthen our integrated air and nissan defense.

at sea we will have a carriers, storage groups, submarines, and significant numbers of combat ships on the persistent basis. so bolstering as eastern flank there. terry, what do you make of that statement? that's right now at 1st listen, people might think that this is just more of the same what nato has been doing since even before the invasion of ukraine, sending more troops to his eastern ally, sending more equipment. but one thing we should listen to in stoughton brick statement is that he said this is going to be a persistent presence. and that's something that's been changing at nato. just in recent days, the alliance has decided that it will make longer term plans for these forces to stay there. this is something that wasn't possible before, because there was an agreement with russia that there wouldn't be permanent basing of troops along russia's border. they say this deal is out the window and now they are looking at making these reinforcements permanent. let's talk

a little bit about the possibility of russia using chemical biological or nuclear weapons in ukraine. nato says that would change things. but what does that mean, terry? what more would the alliance do then? that's right, a secretary general stilton berg says this would really be a sea change in the war. and that is because not only, of course, would it be a catastrophe for ukraine and, and nobody wants to see more of that. but with a chemical attack that doesn't stop it, you cranes borders. and so there's a high likelihood that un and nato l. i could, could be contaminated by a chemical attack, and in fact, you ivy, we heard that today, nato has activated for the 1st time ever, a task force on chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear weapons. and that it is now looking at how to reinforce in its own allies counter measures in case such an attack occurs. so that's an historic event that we heard today, and that just indicates how high the concern is that russia really may be looking

at using a chemical weapon in ukraine. president zalinski also providing without warning. and today he renewed appeals from further weapons from nato. and he's asking now for one percent of nato weapons and address today. how did need react him? his request i nato secretary general stilton berg was asked directly, as was boris johnson, how they would respond to this, this very specific request. and neither of them had an answer that you know, that nato is, is not itself providing weapons to ukraine as individual allies. stilton berg did say that, that countries had made announcements in this meeting today that they would be providing for their equipment to ukraine. and some of that equipment, as we discussed earlier, would also be a to a, to counter a chemical possible chemical weapons attack. so there will be medication and a and other gear needed for this. once again does underscoring, the nato is very, very worried about this war. escalating in a,

in an incredibly dangerous way. dw correspondent terry shoals. thank you for this. terry. after a month of war, russia has invasion of ukraine, has reportedly bogged down with a ground offensive stalled in several places. the russian military has been increasingly targeting civilian infrastructure, and yet, despite the vast number of ukrainian suffering, the country's military has so far been able to keep russian forces at bay against all odds. flames and smoke billowing from a russian transport ship in the harbor of russian occupied baird. yonce lines for humanitarian aid. stretching in front of bombed out apartment blocks in the heavily struck city of mar, you pull a month into russia's war and ukraine. every days, full of images that only weeks ago were difficult, if not impossible, to imagine in modern europe. the sun was shining in keys and no bombs were falling

for the moment as soldiers and civilians reflected on a month of war, grains of logistics ukrainians have united as never before or per 100 under god. this makes me very happy. the pin and the russians made a big mistake coming after our country in our land, where we will fight their throats or with our homeland fellow shuddered enough massively away. morale is as high as on the 1st day, and it will remain so until the last day. victory day, he remain determined. ukraine has proven its resilience, but sustained bombardment. bodies in the streets and life in bomb shelters with limited or no power or heat are bound to take their toll on even the bravest with my son was id eclipse. i feel hopeless to help with a lovely one doesn't know what to do next and how to behave. am i? so i try to keep calm and only hope that everything will be over years, city and all will be fine. as it was before for over at to see the smiles returned

to people's faces and our chances to enjoy life returned to us. they heard you say that i left you a month ago. no one knew how long ukraine could hold out against russia. and yet, despite the told to human life and infrastructure, and the sheer size of the russian war machine, the underdog is still standing now to some of the other stories were falling for a this hour emergency crews. at the sight of monday's plane, crash in china. say they have found more pieces of aircraft and human remains. they're still searching for the 2nd black box, the flight data recorder to try and figure out what caused the boeing $737.00 to suddenly nose dive from cruising altitude. 132 people were on board, all are presumed dead yard. jamaica's prime minister has told britons prince william that the caribbean island aims to become a republic. the remarks come during

a week long tour of former british colonies by prince william and his wife kate protesters have been demanding britain formerly apologized for slavery and pay reparations. north korea has fired a long range missile and what japan is calling and unacceptable act of violence. japanese defense officials say it may be a new type of intercontinental ballistic missile. tokyo 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. joining me now is darcy cloud, a political scientist and post doctoral fellow at the institute of korean studies at george washington university. thank you for the taking time to speak to d w. now, north korea has launched a long range missiles successfully for the 1st time in 4 years. south korean and

japanese military officials are calling this the country's biggest test ever. why has pyongyang taken the step now? well 1st i think we've seen nor has made incremental progress over time, even though it hasn't launched a long range missile since 2017. it's been, it's been launching short an intermediate range missiles during this time. all it is to say that north korea is one step closer and closer to hitting the continental united states, as well as the stabilizing. the reason we just heard the japanese prime minister considering possible sanctions, what could further penalties impose on north korea? look like? well, japan has its own form of sanctions. that includes, forbids trade with north korea also from to free assets of those that are associated with regime nuclear weapons program. japan's interest really. and this is not only to stave off north korean nuclear weapons program,

but also to repatriate japanese citizens. but it alleges north korea has, has adopted dorothy talk to us about south korea's response today. it fired multiple missiles in response to the north test. you know, there are some critics, i'd say this could potentially lead to escalation. what do you think? i think the south korea responses on par with how it's responded to you. big missile test, the big nuclear test in the past, south korea from vantage point, needs to show that it's ready and willing and able to, to counter any sort of north korean threat. i think that we're not seeing a rapid escalation right now, but rather a brief and finally response to the icbm test. now south korea has a new president. what kind of relationship are you expecting to see now between the 2 countries with this new leadership? yeah, this is a really important question, considering the outgoing president,

when jane with largely characterized by a very soft engagement type approach to north korea that we thought a lot of movement on youth like you know, who was just elected earlier this month, has pledged a much harder stand in line with many conservatives in south korea. i think that we're already seeing, and we'll see, continued hardline approach toward north korea. and the prospects for continued test to the scale are much more likely going forward. darcy drought post doctoral fellow at george washington university. thank you for your insights. thank you. you're watching dw news. here's a recap of our main story. u. s. president joe biden has said nato has never been more united and has determined to continue to help ukraine resist. russia as invasion, speaking after an emergency summit of nato leaders by also voice support for removing brush up from the g. 20 group of industrialized nations. you're watching,

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