ah ah ah this is the w news live from berlin. the west promise is ukraine. more heavy weapons. german chancellor, olaf shalt says berlin will send martin antiaircraft be styles and right out equipment on the united states pledges advanced air defense systems, prompting a warning from moscow. also on the program, nato applicant,

sweden and finland tried to become turkish objections to that. joining the alliance, sweden's defense minister talks exclusively to d. w as germany launchers a summer travel special for just 9 euros a month. anyone can travel on public transport as much as they want. as part of the government's efforts to help with rising energy prices. ah, i'm feel gale. welcome to the program. western governments are increasing their promises of military aid to help you. crane found off a russian assault in the countries east. us president joe biden says his country will provide advance rocket systems while germany has promised a modern anti aircraft missiles. russian foreign minister, sir guy laughed. ralph has responded by saying that the supply of us advance rocket launchers to ukraine, risks bringing what he called

a 3rd country into the conflict. these at the advanced rocket systems, the u. s. will be sending to ukraine long requested by president for letting me lensky keith hopes these type of weaponry. we'll give it the upper hand. these medium range missiles could strike into russian territory that ukraine has a great not to use them to do so. writing in the new york times, president biden announced the latest military aid to help you crane in its fight against the invading forces. but russia's foreign minister warned the deliveries could draw a 3rd country into the wall. the key these conditional wishes to such risks, of course exists to do what the key of regime is demanding from its western suppliers in such a categorical manner as we went. first, it crosses all boundaries of decency and diplomatic communication. i'm pretty sure

the quinn matthews scrub junior. our 3rd and 2nd, it's a direct provocation of aim to getting the west involved in combat with in a speech to the german parliament. on wednesday, chancellor or left shelter followed in biden's footsteps. he announced that germany would be sending modern air defense systems to ukraine, as well as rocket launchers in coordination with the united states near conan. in the coming weeks, we will also deliver further weapons to embark, for example, he'll beat german government has just decided that we will supply the irish t system. the most modern air defense system that germany has. this will enable ukraine to protect an entire city from russian air strikes. that, too, is a decision by the federal government. ukraine's army chief has said that these rockets systems provided by the u. s. will be crucial encountering russian attacks

in the long battle over ukraine's eastern territory. will they w correspondent, mathias bullying her is in cave. asked him if these promises from the u. s. and germany renew crane's military would finally get what it's been asking for. yeah, i mean i have been announcements before for these rocket launchers. there has been a bit of confusion when biden announced that they would not deliver rocket launches that have a race that would be able to hit russian cities. but there was about the range of the rockets they deliver, that was not about the principal and the rocket. launchers is something that ukraine has asked for for some time because they hoped they would be able to destroy russian positions. basically more effectively, especially in the danverse way. russia has brought a lot of heavy artillery and um, yeah, of course everybody we spoken to in the military have said that this kind of heavy artillery rocket launches long range, how it is,

et cetera. which could change their situation in their own it, in their faith. what says the situation is, let's talk about what's going on in a dumbass or how are you cranium, forces, ferry? there. this all, it's from the russians on all the positions of the ukraine's have been very heavy and what russia has done, what is there is also learned from what they have done before and where they have failed before is that they concentrate a lot of firepower on the next place they want to take, often just raising the cities that they are attacking to, to rubble and germ. this is what they have done. it, it has worked. they are advancing in the places where they have used this tactics. but it works slowly and the ukrainians have done pretty well. also at fighting back many of these attacks. but let's save their 10 attacks at 10 different points at

along the frontline, which is a 500 kilometer frontline. at some point, one of them will succeed and this is what we are seeing. the russian successes are mostly mostly very expensive, hard fought for advances where they have used a lot of ammunition in particular to get to these positions over the long term. however, these are advances and the ukrainians are under huge pressure. i was so much of this fighting now concentrated in the east. how are people farther west in like, like in the, in cave where you are? how are they coping if you visited keith to day and you hadn't been here before, and you hadn't followed the news you and i think is that there's a war here. life is pretty much back to normal people out on the streets there still some shops close there. so there are some proper precautions. there's also a curfew still on. but overall it looks very different from what we've seen just a month ago or even 3 months ago. so that life is pretty, pretty,

pretty relaxed actually here, and key of people are returning to the city and returning to their normal lives. having said that, there are threats against key if there have been warnings that russia might attack key if again. but this is not in a shirt or something they could do in the shirt short term. they would have to have major successes in the east, in or the order to free some troops to attack key if again, or other places in ukraine. and at the moment it doesn't look like it. thank you for that much is bullying in keith. i also spoke with our military analyst to frank lead, which is based in oxford in the u. k. he explained how the promised advanced weapon systems could change the calculus on the front lines. last mathias was saying the tactics of the russians are based around blasting that way through to local tactical success rather than any particular skills or aptitude. and that's because the russians go very major on our taylor and always have back decades after about

a 100 years. so in the eighty's, nato developed these multi loans rocket systems. specifically, to challenge this problem of russian military. and what with what we see now in the high mass system from the u. s. is the latest iteration of that. and it's specifically designed to reach behind the lines and attack russian equivalence on their supply lines. so it's taking the battle more deeply into russian lines. so it's very good news for the ukrainians. the american gift. very bad news for russian guns also to offset the lack of power on the korean. so it's off to the so called introduction bowl, which is cutting off supplies and attacking that support is kind of me because the reason for the short i was supposed to go to the other system, the irish t it has to be working together actually because clearly the,

all you kind of positions available to russia are all, or they're pretty reluctant actually to go over you credit lines, but they be far more reluctant now with iris t the other radar systems. so to be deployed, i would say one thing. we're not going to see these on the front lines or, or deploy the toilet battle for many weeks. training needs to be done, right? ration and so forth. but could you see a credit? and now we have the russian foreign minister. i think i love ross saying that there is a risk that a 3rd country could become involved in the conflict. is this a threat? you think to the u. s. and germany? yes, the usual sabre rattling that we should ignore to get it to treat it with the content that we've been hearing this really since day one. the west has been assisting you crazy since day one and will continue to do so. despite the various red lines and threats issuing from moscow, i satellites should be ignored, treated properly unless now there may well be sort of behind it. behind the scenes

negotiations which are taking place between russia. yes. but that's, that's, that's going to be rather covert right. just ok. so just to pick up on a point that we heard from it. if there has been a gap house in there between promise is from the west and actual delivery of equipment on the ground, that must be very disparaging. if you're a new crane. well yes, but on the other hand, the announcement today we'll get a real lift. about 4 weeks ago we heard of the transfer about a 100 artillery guns and they've only gone up to the front line in the last week or 2. you need to train crews, you need to integrate the systems. so we can expect that there's going to be a lack. the problem i have and many others have is that perhaps the time is come. we should stop litigation, which system and what is going to want numbers and leave the russian intelligence

service to do a bit of a bit of hard work in finding out for themselves what's being transferred. it's like a job to me. as an intel, the former tommy's it's awesome to hear about that, a transfer, this not weapon system. it does help. it does help the other side. i see why they're doing it, but, but perhaps you should sort of wrote back on, right. and a quick, what about the comments that lots of comments that i'm hearing today saying that the despite their advance in easton ukraine, russia is actually repeating mistakes made at the start of the war. is that your assessment? yes, the pentagon has said, came up with this in the last couple of days. russia has the same problems and since day one it's got caught out on me. it lacks infantry, it's equipment is in poor order. its command systems are antiquated. where's the, where's the crate? needs are in far better shape than all of those in all of those departments. just finally, one point. remember, the russians are operating peace, time,

manning out with reduced reduced units, ukrainians of war time, money and have no problem at all with manpower. their issue is with the kind of kit they have the capabilities and that's why these announcements today are so important. thank you for that. frank led, rich and oxford take a quick roundup of some of the developments in this war. rushes foreign minister, so gay lovers met with various foreign ministers of the gulf cooperation council in riyadh focus on talks isn't clear, but comes a day after european union leaders agree to ban most russian oil imports. by the end of the year, francis has said that we to exports from ukraine should be allowed to leave the country freely and that food should not be used as a weapon of war. the russian blockade of ukrainian port is causing global shortages and putting up prices as demand increases. and ukraine's top prosecutor is preparing to charge dozens of suspected russian war criminals. hundreds more,

including military cheese, politicians and propaganda agents are under investigation. some soldiers have already been found guilty and jailed, but more ukrainian, but the more ukrainian territory russia takes, the harder it will be to gather evidence and bring charges. an extra port contains images that you may find upsetting. images that shocked the world in future, the evidence of alleged trustees was plain to see what happened. there is just one example of retreating russian forces, leaving horrors in their wake. ukraine says is now investigating nearly $15000.00 suspected war crimes ranging from pillaging and looting rate and summary execution to indiscriminate bombing of civilian infrastructure and keeps. investigators aren't on their own that aided by a growing group of european prosecutors, the eas, judicial agency euro just is coordinating the joint investigation team,

which includes star from ukraine, poland lithuania, and the international criminal court. with latvia, estonia and slovakia joining on tuesday, ukraine's prosecutor general welcomed the teams expansion at a news conference and said it was clear who was to blame for alleged war crimes. of course, at this president of russian federation and his team actually who started this wall who started to kill civilians, rape or a city allowed starter civilians every, all of these atrocities. what to and now helen did wrong to ukraine, really. she's dressed as well. how vital the investigation is to ukraine for us very important to win, to win on military front, to win on traditional front to win on diplomatic front. it's very, very important. all ukrainians won't justice, justice, accountability and justice. but that will likely be a hard task. while these captured russian soldiers may have been found guilty of

war crimes, putin and his associates remain far out of the reach of any ukrainian court, sweden, and finland, pushing ahead with that landmark bench to join nato, a sweet and joining the military alliance would mean giving up more than 2 centuries of neutrality, public opinion in favor of joining groups around to 50 percent after russia invited ukraine. but nato member turkey opposes the bids. turkish president read it, ty bird, one accuses swain of supporting terrorists and is angry about stock homes, embargo on arm sales to to k. speaking exclusively to d, w. new swedish defense minister peter hunt, chris explained what was behind his country's historic shift. the situation before the 24th of february, or so on situation on the situation after the russian attack against ukraine,

wilson is an order. we have a situation where we have a real war in our neighborhood. and that changed the situation fundamentally. and we have also decided all of the security analytics to go to native membership together. we've seen land or, well you're saying, well us at other countries in europe for example, your money and, and others that we, we tried to create peace and we tried to play the full solutions, but we are not naive. we see it at a well, a month around us. we must also make conclusions from, from that situation. now we have the 1st big war in our neighborhood since the 2nd world war. so there is a fundamental change. and it's 100 percent rational responsibility. swedish defends myself to hold fist the roads in denmark are going to the polls today in a referendum on whether country should join the european union's common defense

policy. denmark is an, a you member, but has negotiated exemptions on various policies, including defense against background of russian aggression. things are being asked whether they still want to opt out of a you defense planning. denmark has a history of seeing new to europe in referendums, in his long been concerned about to close the 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 you went ahead without them. personally, i think you should do a show. the delta dental changes. show that now we need the stronger euro while european countries, we're looking for more military cooperation. 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 cut meg in spite of traditional euros skepticism. there is also a realization amongst the public that we are in a crisis situation. so maybe it's not that bad an idea to reconsider out. and mike is participating in security defense prime minister matter fredrickson called to referendum on whether to reverse course and opt in to the use joint defense policies. me there. so here 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 scuff fortress ford opinion pulse for sea imagery for yes. but tardies 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

i couple of of the stories are making news around the world. now security forces in israel have shot dead. a woman in the occupied west bank is ready military. so she was holding a knife when she approached the soldier carrying out what they call a routine security activity. israeli palestinian violence has intensified over recent weeks. rady rates in the occupied west bank and deadly palestinian attacks on israelis. chinese official say a 6 point one, magnitude earthquake has killed 4 people, an injured 14 others in the southwest and fish. one province of ours is in the city of yan, which was at the epicenter of deployed. nearly 4500 rescue workers fought suggest the quake triggered landslide that damage several homes from today. people here in germany will be able to travel for a whole month on most public transport for just 9 euros. the cheap transport deal

is a response to rising energy prices organizes also hope it'll lose people away from their cars. millions of tickets have been sold, but there are concert, 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 to counter rising energy prices. this train is headed to the baltic sea. now normally a return ticket would cost around $50.00 euros, but with the 9 euro 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 trains. at berlin's main train station, people seem excited about it. i find it very, very good. i'm actually not the big use of public transport, but at 9 euros. one should consider italy. it's a good idea to have it in the entire country that's. that's very cool. mind blowing crowds like these are a big worry. there are concerns that the infrastructure will not be able to handle an influx of new passengers. and it's sometimes hard to figure out which trains are

covered by the ticket. but despite some possible glitches, this is gearing up to be the summer of climate friendly rail travel in germany. a report from julia, our denny. i caught up with julia at bell in central station and asked her how popular the new ticket has been. yes, we've heard of from the deutscher bank, germany, israel service that up until today. 7000000 tickets have been sold germany wide and that is quite a significant number. considering that the ticket came into force only today. and we've heard a lot of enthusiasm about the ticket from people we've spoken to both people who already use public transport, but also people who might give it a shot. now that it's, it's become cheaper. and this is also an advantage for not only residents of germany, but also torres who come here over the summer. they can also take advantage of this ticket and it is quite a significant benefit. adobe, of course,

a famous for its cost, and it's all to bonds, not so much for it's public transport. efficiently took you to a new direction for the country. well, it is definitely an attempt to try to incentivize the use of plug public transport and trains. but well, we've also seen criticism of the measure, for example, people seeing that instead of spending all this money on this cheaper ticket, they could have invested the money and improving the real infrastructure. and also at the same time as the introduction of this tickets, the government has also lowered taxes on petrol. and that is also seen as a sign of the government actually still subsidizing a cars and car drivers. so this is definitely an attempt to try to push people to use trains more. but whether it is a such a big change in terms of mobility in germany, that remains to be seen. ok. so i'm going to presume that you have

a bought one of these on your tickets. where will you be going? well actually i already have a monthly pass and the great thing is that with this monthly past, this normally costs around 60 euros, and i can only use it in berlin. and now i only have to pay the 9 euros and i can travel with it across germany. and i think i will go and try to visit the baltic coast. it is a great summer destination in germany with beautiful beaches. and i just have to hope that the trains aren't be too full to get there. okay, thank you for that. julia sally. off the beach. a south korean superstars b t s or visit the white house for talks with us president joe biden on the final day of asian pacific american heritage month. the boy band came to talk about asian inclusion and the reason spike an anti ancient hate crimes. an army of fans gathered outside the white house gates to try and catch a glimpse of their k pop idols. hello everybody. good afternoon,

caper band bts take to the stage in washington. although much smaller than the usual gigs. i know the chart toppers game with an important message and get some kids on highway beach. yes. and it is a great honor to be invited to the white house today to discuss the important issues of anti asian hate crimes, asian inclusion and diversity there for you. a devastated by the recent surge of heat crimes, including hate crimes against asian americans. to put a stop to this year and support this cause, we would like to take this opportunity to use our voices. once again. the south korean boy band have become a global music sensation since the deb you in 2013 bts is holding for concerts in los angeles. they have previously used their platform to rally the fans around social justice causes a legion of those fans gathered outside the white house in hopes of catching a glimpse of them. it would be

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