ah mm hm. i ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin face to face in key if the leaders of france, germany, romania and italy sit down with president vladimir zaleski. they say you are up stands united with t if and they're pledging support for ukraine to receive you candidate status fro coming a war against your crew impulses. the biggest verb through our security buckets.

nato lays out class has strengthened security in the faith of russian aggression as the alliance aims to reset it. strategic vision ah, a marina evans dean. it's good to have you with us. the leaders of germany, france, italy, and romania have been meeting with ukrainian president vladimir zalinski on their 1st face to face visit to ukraine. since russia's invasion, speaking in the capital key of all 4 of them pledged their support for ukraine to receive full status as a potential european union candidate will confirm that the ukrainian president called for a fall embargo and russian energy, as well as a 7th package of sanctions against moscow. soleski said rush is invasion, was not just an attack on ukraine. russian aggression is aggression against europe,

entire europe, entire united europe. it's aggression against us, against our shared values. and therefore, we should be united in our response to de ukrainians are in the frontline fighting against the russian strikes. but we are not alone. and the today's meeting the today, sir former to prove that we understand each other fully. we know, and we understand that we need to reinforce your cream, ukrainian defense hickey bully boards, and he's short also that press conference german chancellor. all of sholtes also vowed military's for support for ukraine, for as long as needed. sholtes have been criticized for not delivering arms faster and he's there and he would seek a positive decision on ukraine's e u. candidacy during talks next week or in a group of ukraine forms part of the european family. my and one milestone on its

promising european path as attaining candidate status for the e. u. the european union member states will be discussing that in the coming days. if we know that it requires a unanimous decision on by member states, germany is in favor of a positive decision on ukraine. i don't stop and i will work in the european council to gain unanimous support for that. federal credit. the same applies to the republic of moldova public model, and it's a matter of european credibility that we also finally on our promise to the states of the west and balkans, who've been on this path for years. and i lou i spoke earlier and cindy w correspondent, rebecca readers who was and then press conference in key. if i started by asking her if the ukrainian president got what he was looking for, i think you'd have to say absolutely. marianna, i mean this is something that the entity has been pushing for for some time,

even before the war, but of course, more urgently. and more formally since the war, we know that ukraine put in their application to be joined the u. 4 days off to russia. invaded their country so this is and he is repeated and repeated the will that he wants to not, not just be part of some great european alliance, but that he actually wants to be a member of the a you. so really today's solidarity, today's unity from those european late is the very important from the 3 biggest economies within the a u and romania as well all supporting this. i think zalinski is a very, definitely happy with the outcome of today's tools. well, what about further military support? ukraine of course keeps on asking for more and heavier weapons. were there any pledges on this today? some small pledges. yeah, we saw some small pledges from france. they're going to send a couple more of these. caesar rocket launches that are very, you know,

top notch. if you want the best on the market, they're gonna send some more of that. and of course you, as you just heard germany saying that they would continue supporting militarily, as long as is needed. unfortunately, most of what germany has promised hasn't arrived. certainly none of the bigger weapons that there, that ukraine desperately needs. none of it is actually arrived yet. so i think probably some minor disappointment from the ukrainian side that maybe they went some bigger announcements as when it came when it comes to military aid. but definitely very happy with the all the things that came out of the meeting. well, today's visit of the german, french, italian in romanian leaders marks the highest profile international visit to key if since the russian invasion. rebecca, please do stand by it. because 1st, we'd like to take a look at how to day unfolded, and then we'll continue our conversation and put it in for the leaders of the a use 3 biggest economies. it was a long awaited trip,

a chance to show you the support for ukraine and counter criticism over the speed and scale of their responses. when, when the latest disembarked their train in key, the french president told waiting media their visit was a signal to ukrainians. and he says that we rigor, message of european solidarity to the ukrainian people who chance to port we want to talk about the present in the future. because the coming weeks are going to be difficult. then it was a quick stop at a cave hotel where the 3 ladies were reminded of the ever present war. went air raid sirens rang out. ah, the keys suburb of your pin, which was the scene of intense fighting in the early days of the war, was their next destination. here they were joined by the romanian president. close your highness,

and showing some of the destruction left behind by the russian army. federal macaroni, who just weeks ago, infuriated keith by warning against humiliating russia, lauded the heroism of europeans defenders, and said he'd always supported ukraine. the german chancellor, olaf sholtes struck a solemn note as this forced by. it's terrible what destruction this war is causing . it's much worse when you see the terrible senselessness of the violence. we see here for drugs and lost his a devote to phoebe, his in innocent civilians had been effected. this houses have been destroyed with an entire city has been destroyed, even though there was no miller infrastructure here. hold on. awesome keith hopes this visit will prompt more support from europe as late as safe for themselves. the devastation of the wall. i'm gonna will, rebecca, there has been some tension between the you and ukraine over the past few weeks.

and in particular, frustration over remarks by a mental not crone about continuing dialogue with the vladimir putin and also all of scholes continuing to maintain direct line or direct talks with the vladimir putin. you are on today's press conference. can you describe the atmosphere for us? it with formal but friendly. i mean these things do tend to be quite full when you are at the presidential palace. you've got the formal greeting, the principal standing there, taking their photos of hold the formal family, the family photo of a handshake. that kind of thing, but it was, it was friendly that were hugs and handshakes after the talk. so when the latest came out to address the media, they did certainly say that they've had a good and productive conversation is how to read much more into that than that all the comments that were ruffled feathers here from president macro. he actually addressed that at the prep press conference saying that he's been completely transparent with all of his tools and he's trying to keep dialogue open,

that it's no good to isolate rusher. in fact that that could just be creating a bigger problem down the track. so he really, he actually, he was asked and he'd address that issue, head on and said that, you know, he's always been transparent both with potent and with president to live in that he actually had the okay, by prism zalinski to even go ahead and have that conversation with vladimir putin, but everyone was on the same page there from okay, it is quite remarkable to see world leaders visit a country that is in at war um what, where are the security measures like in key of these leaders? spent the day there. i mean, the security measures were incredibly tight, as you can imagine, probably the highest security that i've seen so far. all one of these visits, you know, given the importance of the visit and just who the visitors were, they were probably more security than they were price actually out there today at

just before. 9 the leaders were about to leave for the tour of the northern suburbs of cave. we actually had an air raid siren here in cave, and that really delayed the trip because they had to go into the bunker. now interestingly, when we were at the press conference just before the latest were going to come out and give that press conference, there was another siren, but they chose to come out anyway, so they must have felt very secure that nothing was going to happen at that location, but yeah, definitely security has been incredibly type. most of the details kept on the raps . very difficult for the press, even the press traveling who need to follow the latest and get all the information we're we're really kept in the dark a lot. so that's, that's another security measure. so definitely the type of security i've seen so far for one of these visits t w's. rebecca ritter is for us and key of rebecca. thank you. nato is vowing to bolster is forces along the lines as eastern borders in the face of russia's

aggression. nato, defense ministers have been meeting in brussels as the alliance aims to reset it. strategic vision, the meeting comes ahead of a summit later this month that we'll seek to sent a new course for the coming years. speaking after the meetings, secretary generally installed, berg said roches invasion of ukraine would change nato security strategy long term growth, war, urgency crew impulses, the biggest threats to our security in decades. so we must hook out naples response for the longer term. at the summit, we will take decisions to make made so even stronger and more absorbed in a world both is more dangerous or more competitive. i spoke earlier with our brussels correspondent, terry shoals and i asked her what nato's response might be, given the new challenges that yen stolberg says are now facing the alliance. that's right. the nato secretary general calls russia's invasion of ukraine. the war on

ukraine, a game changer for the alliance. and he has said in the past that nato is going to have to live with a degree of uncertainty. now that, that this is the new normal. and so the alliance is having to reallocate it's resources. that is, this is not how it expected to go into the future. but just in the last few weeks, in fact, they're talking about a new model for nato, for nato's resources. and that includes putting more troops and more ammunition, pre positioning equipment along the eastern flank, in what was initially thought, just to be a short term reinforcement. now those reinforcements are likely to be permanent, or at least long term. since of course, no one can predict either the length of the war in ukraine, nor what russia will do after that. so this is certainly a new way of thinking in nato. and are there right now drafting what they called a strategic concept. the next 10 year plan for nato, and that is going to be presented at the summit and it is likely to look a very different than one would have thought even a year ago. well,

nato also has said it wants to increase its support for ukraine. what could that look like? well, what, what nato does is, is coordinate support among allies for ukraine. it doesn't have its own weapons. but what was talked about at this defense ministers meeting was in particular moving ukraine from the donations the contributions of allies from soviet era equipment. the type of thing that was rushed there just when the war started to nato great equipment, really upgrading what is given to ukraine, to what is who what nato countries are using. and one of the reasons for that is quite practical. they're running out of ammunition for the old equipment. it's not made any more. and so the ukrainians are pleading for more ammunition and it's simply not available. so as they are able to train ukrainian soldiers on the new equipment, nato allies are going to be giving this, this more modern, these more modern weapons. and of course we did here just at this native defense ministers meeting that they're going to be getting multiple rocket launch system

something the ukrainians have been asked asking for and which they are now able to use as well. that was d, w, brussels corresponding terry shown to speaking to me a while ago. well now let's take a look at some other stories making news around the world. nigerian authorities are a searching for 17 women who were kidnapped in the capital of the user. on twitter posted a message saying she'd been taken by men disguised as police officers. pregnant women are allegedly among those who are abducted, nigeria has seen a wave of directions in the countries north, but it rarely happens in the capital. australia's new government is pledging a 43 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by the year 2030. it was one of prime minister anthony albany, is, is key election issues. officials say the country is turning the corner on climate change, blame for extreme weather events that a battered australian recent years. searing heat has caused france as national

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