so she's a kitten, doesn't dance then was our tune. they are going to send the medical launch rocket systems to ukraine. that's what they are going to do. when it was on like a talk, we will contribute what and wherever we can be. taking the terms, this is part of our decision in use. we're just listening to joan chance the all our shorts with a major policies, speech to the german parliament, the bundle stock. and help me unpack all that i'm joined here. the studio dw, chief, political correspondent, below the crane. and from the bonus stock did have your chief international editor, mikayla cooper, them here. let's start with you. what's your take on this speech? well, as we actually have to remind ourselves that this was supposed to be about the budget are but are we just dipped out of this as well as salts? was defending himself against the opposition leader. foolish math,

accusing germany as it has been actually criticized internationally for dragging. it seals not delivering heavy weapons fast enough and all sorts going through the list. they're citing. the u. s. president joe biden, who has made a point recently, stating that he will not provide any weapons to ukraine, any rockets that could be launched into russia. so clearly a red line being drawn by western allies, they're in how far they are willing to go at not to provoke russia, but at the same time ensuring that ukraine can defend itself at all sorts of german chancellor here, stating, time and time again that russia specifically, vladimir putin must not win this war and being accused by the opposition leader british mat, if not spelling out that, that means that ukraine must win. so that's where the line of rhetoric there is translated into action by germany having announced yesterday that it will provide tanks to

a grease which would put grease in the position to provide ross and built tanks to ukraine. and as going through the list of what it has provided so far, with the accusation still hanging in the air both here in parliament, but also internationally that germany has been acting too slow or salt, insisting that it won't go ahead and walk out of line with western allies, miller, but when, when this war began, all of the shawls herb spoke about of the promised titan vendor in germany as story or turning point after today's speech to that sound like that? no, this is certainly not a speech of that nature. that truly was a very, a pro active speech from alive sholtes. and a surprising speech from olaf schultz who went far, much further on february 27th than many people believed. and as he mentioned, one of those actions was to break with the longstanding taboo on sending weapons to

crisis or zones. he made it very clear that germany would be doing that and that it would greatly increase spending for the german military, which has seen under investment for many, many years. so here again, we've heard him defending all that has been done since then, but not answering the central charge of the opposition leader, who by the way, spoke right before him. and we, we went into listening to very strong criticism that he had heard from opposition leader from dish mats, who said, among other things, we passed a resolution here in the buddhist talk more than a month ago on april a 28th saying that we will provide support heavy weapons to ukraine and we have not acted on that. and that's where you heard essentially a very defensive olaf schultz here listing a whole range of systems that he says have been provided. but not speaking to some

of the most crucial systems that many people believe germany could provide, but has not, namely battle tanks. martyr tanks as they're known, there are nearly a 100 of them available on the property of a defense contractor here in germany, which is offered to provide them. and the government has equivocated and vacillated on this. and in general, if you listen to the messages we've just heard, there is nothing new he once again said as, as michelle who had just pointed out, putin must not win this war. but he didn't say what the opposition leader challenged him to say, namely that ukraine must win and that that is the adverse of putin not winning to the chief political correspondent in the crime in the studio. ah, she isn't a look at the german bully stock. thank you both very much. if

you just joined us, joined us, you are watching the w news now. the united states has announced $700000000.00 worth of new military aid for ukraine, including advanced weapons system a day after saying the u. s. would not provide key if with any rockets that could be used to strike russian territory. president by the said he agreed to sent media branch rockets after receiving assurances from ukraine. writing of the new york times president biden said, if russia does not pay a heavy price for its actions, it will send a message to other would be aggressive that they too can seize, towed, tory, and subjugate other countries. meanwhile, russian forces continue that gradual advance in the dong boss region of easton ukraine. the sound of artillery echoes across the don bass. russian forces in sunny fields shelling already shattered towns and cities before moving

troops in for combat. meeting with slovakia as president ukrainian president followed him as a lansky said, getting artillery from allies would make a crucial difference. miss williams lunches in the east. it's difficult for us because of the lack of appropriate weapons with if our mission to reclaim the region when it leads to tens of thousands of our people dying monthly. yeah, we will wait for the appropriate weapons to save as many of our people as we can. not, the weapons are what will reclaim the territory the we change the own will do for years. and the 2nd piece, russia is pushing to seize the entire eastern region of don bass, which has already been partially in the hands of pro russian separatists since 2014 severe done yet, has seen widespread destruction. similar to what happened in the port city of mario pole. but ukrainian forces have had some small successes elsewhere in the east.

more than a 1000 civilians were evacuated from russian controlled towns around hockey id than the most is in the my there's no power but then of no phone service, no water. the echo, it's hard with gun. i can't contact my children, like my oldest daughter. there's no work and no money, little pussy medicine, an occupation regime is being established and they've introduced the ruble. prices have changed the forest people to sign agreement saying they'll cooperate just yet. vienna is. i hope i believe that i will return home to where i'm from and that it will be a part of ukraine up with how much does it because i don't want to live under occupation. i just don't want to throw some as the russian onslaught grinds on, the exit is continues. people fleeing the east with whatever they can carry,

leaving behind homes, reduced to rubble and bodies buried hastily before leaving. it's in all the countries of sweden and finland are pushing forward on their landmark bids to join the nato military alliance for sweden. joining nato would mean giving up more than 2 centuries of neutrality. public opinion in favor of joining nato grew to around 50 percent after russia's invasion of ukraine. but nato expansion is being opposed by member countries. turkey, president ross of type are the one has a fused sweden of supporting opposition groups. it labels terrorists and has angered over sweden's embargo on arms sales to turkey. all 30 nato members must approve expansion bits. the issue is expected to dominate discussions at the nato summit. at the end of june. i'm are joined by

sweetness defense minister peter holmquist from stock on welcome to d. w. you said publicly last year that you would quote, never allow sweden to join nato as long as you were defense minister. why the, you turned now? the situation am before the 24th of february or so on, situation on the situation after the russian attack against ukraine. wilson is an order and we have a situation where we have a real war in our neighborhood. and that, that changed the situation fundamentally. and we have also decided all of the security analyses to go to nato membership together. we've seen lunch. so it was one situation before and it's one equation of now, turkey is threatening to block your accession. do you think you'll be able to persuade president ad one to lift his veto?

or we have a dialogue with candle for with different pompous inside neighbor. and also we the role secretary under or on beach needs to solve this problem. the actor says both sweden and finland hobbled courtesy, activists and people linked to the villain movement, who, whom it considers terrorists. is that true? we have a kennedy to the people we the current is back from that we to see the hey, so that's the point of view that they are equal as other seats in the sweetest society the problem we have with turkey, we will try to. so we have a diplomatic dialogue about that. so are you prepared to make concessions to turkey by extra dieting spelling activists? we are, we have the dialogue and we will pullman the whole problem. is this whole,

are you confident that you will be able to convince avalon? as i said, we have a diploma the dialogue and i have to refer to that and you are my respect for that. the sweden tried to solve this question the together with the other friends inside night now, sweetness, over many years. i like many other countries covered defense budget until recently . now it's had to spend big on re aman. how prepared is sweet and actually for worst case scenario. your description is wrong because we thought did we, did the fans proceed to tell us the 15 and between 240-2025 being for you can get with 8478047, and add it to the if we have decided to put 2 more,

2 more swedish 1000000000 crowns included defense for the it was decided to go up $2.00 to $0.04 of the g p and connected to the on for success, we can do with that 2020. now what changes are we likely to see on the ground if sweden joins the allies? would you, for example, allow nato troops or even nuclear weapons on to your territory? i don't think that the on the christian that the on the again that we should have left and so i think we have the same position as norway, the whole idea to be a member of an a 3 so so that we will have the presentations in different sorts of exercises and a tv for free to sewing. and i think that what we can do together is that in, from an order perspective, make

a deeper take the lead on the military operation or, you know, so i think we can be in the higher level and higher threshold towards russia. we need to membership. now this is a historic shift for sweden, your identity as a neutral peaceful, non line nation, now completely lost. i think if it's a wrong description, because or well you is saying, well us at other countries in europe for example, your money and, and others we, we try to create peace and we try to play peaceful solutions. but we are not naive . we see to development around us. we must also make conclusions from, from that situation. and now we have the 1st big more in our neighborhood since the 2nd world war. so there is one dimensional change and it's 100 percent ross

responsibility. this way, this defense minister peter hold quest there. thank you very much. thank you. now voters in denmark on going to the polls today in a referendum on whether the country should join the european union's common defense policy. denmark is any you member, but after 1992 vote is negotiated exemptions on various policies including defense . but now against the backdrop of russian aggression, danes are being asked whether they still want to opt out of e u. defense planning. ah, denmark has a history of saying no to europe in referendums, in his long been concerned about to close a union and being swallowed up by bigger neighbors. only 30 years ago, they decided to opt out of a common european defense policy. danes wanted nothing to do with it, and the eel went ahead without them. first, i think you should do

a sharma reduced or vegetarian dish show that now we need the are stronger ural while european countries were looking for more military co operation. denmark rather focused on its membership in nato, just recently they increased their presence in estonia to help protect the baltics against russian aggression. but it was russia's invasion of ukraine, that finally changed the political mood and cub meg, in spite of traditional yours skepticism, there is also a realization amongst the public that we are in a crisis situation. so maybe it's not that bad an ideal to reconsider. or course and opt in to the u. s. joint defense policies. me there saw her as to her gather tear to night. have agreed that a referendum will be held on the 1st of june. this year. we very strongly urged the danes to abolish the defense reservation at our scarf, forceful horde,

opinion pulse for c majority for yes. but parties on the extreme left and right. are campaigning against. giving up the opt out, option and danes have been known to change their minds before germany's chance all of shots has announced the delivery of modern air defense systems to ukraine is speech dominated by economic and security concerns. the address, the parliament comes 3 months after shawls described the war in ukraine as a turning point in german foreign and security policy. he has promised to provide state of the art heavy witness to ukraine, a move that the german parliament will vote off. don't this friday, the chancellor denounced what he called russia's imperialist onslaught, and promised to continue supporting ukraine as long as it is necessary when defending his response to the bird to the invasion of ukraine in the bonus dark, chancellor shots also took aim at russian president vladimir putin saying that his

war in europe must fail let's of allison doctrine putin must not achieve his goals, though he must not tile and really get through with his brutal military onslaught to try to conquer a part or the entire country business imperialism of a crime which we're not going to accept in europe. now dw cheaper than as editor when you look at the joins us from the german parliament, where shoals are just finished. his speech mckayla schwartz was expect the deliberate speech where he would rather praise germany's handling of ukraine crisis . is that what we've heard from him? what he said he was on the defences or defensive after the opposition leader accused him of basically dragging his heels as also international criticism that we've heard so far. or i shall went down the list of what germany is supplying at

it. what it intends to supply in the future. and at the ease summit, it announced that it would provide tanks to grease so grease can deliver tanks. russian built tanks to ukraine, also new defense systems, a radar system, communication systems. and at the same time, these how it is, is also trading taking place in germany. but overall it was very much a chancellor who saw himself on the defensive and who was stressing that germany will not go it alone. that it will tow the line with its allies, citing to biden the u. s. president too, just in the new york times, mapped out his intention and drawing a red line, providing rockets to ukraine. yes. but not the systems that could be used to reach into russia. so clearly the intention is not to provoke russia would have felt also accusing felicia math, the opposition leader that he may criticize him in public. but in the end,

when it comes to the subject matter, he does agree with him. he said, and meaning, of course, the 100000000000 extra package for german defense, which the opposition will vote in favor of as it has stated, new herb speaking about the opposition, their leader foolish mouths, spoke right before the chancellor. what did he have to say? or he bessy tried to draw all assaults. evelyn mathis now is a very, very good speaker and he said, look, drop what you had scripted give us some answers. and one of the answers he wanted is when what will be delivered? why it is so slow and then it will assault cited that list. and of course, he can site security reasons for not going into specifics of particular dates when weapons are delivered into ukraine air. but also interestingly, and the issue of the prospects of ukraine joining the european union. and here, all the shots didn't give a clear answer to the foolish matters in favor of

a candidacy status or left. so it's much more causes a cautious in line with french president monro, my call said he could take years even decades, probably for them to join. but in this speech, he didn't really address that. but we know that in the past, what i felt has stressed that the west and vulcans at need their promises fulfilled . and they need to see that they are on track of joining the e u. that ukraine cannot effectively dumped the q. and he will also expecting results very soon to travel into the west. simple concept to really back up that fight. but the sort of been heard of shots is not governing on his own. he's in a coalition. what was the mood like among the other coalition, mazda greens, and the liberals? i was just one of them at the moment, is making gains in the polls. absolutely, the greens are the pop stars in this 3 way coalition and we're seeing the pro

business free democrat finance minister in particular and having to time and time again, talk about new debt, something his party actually is against and really having to stand in it for something that they would have disagreed on in principles. so a very tricky balance, particularly of for them as the greens able to score points in popularity and all our souls with it is know the way to put it. and it's still continuing to have a massive communication problem, and he, he simply doesn't really manage to school any kind of public points. he simply isn't doing a good enough job in explaining his policies and how rich he reaches his own conclusions. it's an issue he's been grappling with for weeks now. octave that go and attempt your lucky from there. thank you. tara, to have a look at some of the other stories are making use around the world. australia's

prime minister, antony, and albany says new cabinets has been sworn in at a ceremony in the capital camera. it includes a record number of women and ministerial roles, and the countries 1st ever muslim ministers. albany is a center left labor party ousted the countries conservative coalition. just over a week ago. chinese city of shanghai has come back to life of the 2 months under a tough cove at 19 lockdown. as of wednesday, most of the cities 25000000 residents are again allowed to leave their homes, return to work, use public transport, and drive their cars. residents must still wear master and public and avoid any gatherings. oh, okay, pop group of bts have visited the white alex in talked with president joe biden, the boy band discuss the rise, an anti asian hate crimes in the united states. bts are known for using their international fame to promote social justice issues. it is

a great honor to be invited to the white house today. from today, people here in germany will be able to travel for the entire month on public, most public transport for just 9 euros. the cheap transport deal is a response to rising energy prices. organizers also be to lose people away from their cars. millions have already bought their tickets, but there are concerns. it might end up being a bit of a train crash. endless possibilities. a long list of regional trains ready to take people across germany. and all you need is 9 years. anyone in germany, residents and tourists alike can purchase a monthly pass for this bargain price. it will be available for the month of june, july, and august. it's an easy deal. you can buy the ticket at a machine like this one online or on the app. and once you have the ticket, you can travel anywhere you want. in fact,

the past can be used on local public transport like buses, trams or the metro, but also on regional trains across the country. the aim is to incentivize the use of more climate friendly, public transport, but also the counter rising energy prices. this train is headed to the baltic sea. now normally a return ticket would cost around $50.00 heroes. but with the 9 year old ticket, it is all included in the price. you can go there and back. anytime you want at no additional cost. the trips might be a long one, though high speed trains like this one are not included in the path which only covers trips on slower train. but the ticket doesn't only cover long distance travel, it makes local public transport more accessible to. it's also a relief for video computers wouldn't normally have to pay for quite an expensive we pass. so the 9 year ticket isn't only for the holiday makers. it also makes it

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