people, we should light on the yoke take worlds with wine would be a threat to whistle oak creek wolves this week on d. w ah ah, stay w. news live from berlin, a powerful earthquake hits, eastern afghanistan. officials say a 1000 are dead and many more injured, making it the country's deadliest point. in decades. also coming up here in germany, chancellor,

olaf shaw says democratic nations have joined forces as never before to come back russian. i'm here realism and his speech to parliament. he said, germany would not shirk its security responsibilities. and this comes as the 1st german heavy weapons arrive in ukraine. but are they enough to silence critics who say germany has done too little to help ukraine defend itself? ah, clinical freely, it's good to have you with us. the death toll from a powerful earthquake in eastern afghanistan continues to rise. at least 1000 people have died with hundreds more injured rescue efforts are especially difficult in the remote mountainous region. adding to the challenge is the fact that many international aid agencies left afghanistan after the taliban took over.

rescuers and survivors rush, the injured to waiting helicopters, getting around, and the remote mountainous regions of eastern afghanistan is challenging under normal circumstances. but after wednesday's earthquake, it is even more difficult. the powerful tremor took residents by surprise. many were at home in their beds when it hit the sea, the spin you, i spoke it up. i think it was midnight when the quake struck them and gone. the kids and i screamed, one of our rooms was destroyed while our neighbors screamed and we saw everyone's rooms collapsed, mine and both. eventually, the houses in this rural region are mostly made of mud or stone. and dozens were destroyed. authorities fear many people could be trapped beneath the rubble of demand. the disaster opposes a major test for the taliban, lead government, which seized power last year. since then, many international agencies have left the country and billions of euros and development aid were cut. as a result of dentist and was already facing

a severe economic crisis. in light of these difficult circumstances, the taliban lead government is asking for international help. the afghan red crescent society has dispatched humanitarian aid from cobbled to the affected areas . and the united nations says it's also sending its teams samira. so i had rahman is the advocacy and communications director for the international rescue committee of gaston and cobble and she gave us this update. well, it is an absolutely devastating situation that we are seeing unraveling and practical hostem. as was mentioned in the report earlier, these are some of the most underserved and impoverished communities in the country . they're extremely remote with poor infrastructure as people do not have the economic means to build proper housing. most in these areas live in mud homes that could not handle the massive jolt that they received last night. and i've mentioned

the death toll is ex, has already exceeded a 1000 with scores more injured. and initial estimates are that 1800 homes have been destroyed or damaged. i do to, you know, the remote nature of the areas in which the largest impact is we are expecting that this figure will rise. has your organization been given access to the region? yes, we all have deployed mobile health teams to districts affected in a whole host province to, to provide emergency medical relief. we're also sending an emergency teams to provide cache support to victims affected. i'm currently the humanitarian community here international and jose are coordinating through u. n. o tra, to have a better understanding and i'm through an assessment to have a better understanding of the scale of the impact of this disaster. so that we can

best utilize the resources and capacities of all the organizations that are currently present. i'm so that we can reach as many affected people and as many affected communities as possible in trying to reach those communities. what are the irises priorities in these kinds of catastrophic scenarios? well, our priority has always been women and children are 1st and foremost to given that oftentimes women and children face the brunt of humanitarian disasters. i'm food tense, medicine, cash support, whatever we can provide. we're going to look into that and expand our presence in the region. how do you think this will impact themed already very dire humanitarian situation in the country in that area specifically? ah, like you mentioned in this disaster, this roofing event comes at a time where afghanistan is in the midst of a massive economic crisis. a worsening humanitarian crisis. poverty on the rise and

a health system that is on the brink due to brain drain and a lack of funding. this is just going to exacerbate the existing problems that exist on the ground in afghanistan. right now. a grim picture, your painting there, samira science from one of the international rescue committee. thank you so much for your time. germany will quote do justice to its responsibilities. that is the message from german chancellor off shots who use an address for the countries parliament to re stager when he's commitment supporting ukraine and other international allies. in a wide ranging speech shows said the e. u and nato had joined forces like never before, to fight against russian imperialism. he said germany knew from its history, that alliances were important and that germany was a reliable partner. in the gruesome zip codes, please. oh, in the big security challenge in europe for decades,

germany as the most densely populated and largest country in the us, doing justice to its responsibility. taking responsibility, not just for its own security, but also that of its allies. it 2 weeks ago when i was in the baltic states, i made it clear that an attack on the baltic states would be an attack on all of us under falls under a short while ago i asked w chief political editor retailer commissioner, if it was remarkable that chancellor so heavily emphasized not just germany security, but also it's responsibility towards his allies. yes, absolutely. and germany has the stepped out. it's support to picky for those baltic countries. in lithuania, there's a whole gay that's rotating in and out to support the eastern flank. so goldie some flank of nato. so that means hardware. that means heavy weapons now that we've learned that indeed 7 how it says have arrived in ukraine with germany, had trained ukrainian soldiers in total. it was 12, in addition,

5 from the netherlands. but the commitment he made and the responsibility he says spawns beyond ukraine and one's own security, but also towards the southern hemisphere. those countries who are feeling the brunt of what is fast amounting to a food crisis. and those countries in the global south, he said, if they don't see that commitment from ost, meaning the europeans beating the white a west right now, that would mean that they would be under the sphere of influence of russia and china. and that, that must be avoided. so this is the big kind of spawning speech we saw. of course, we all those key summits coming up or the new summit, the g 7 summit on the nato summit of the coming days. he certainly used the stage. he had to day to try and quash the idea that he's moving too slowly on helping ukraine. do you think he achieved that goal?

why said he didn't convince the opposition and there's more positive signals coming out of ukraine. what helped a great deal was, of course, that there's been a change in information policy now that is a freely available list published of weapons committed equipment committed and equipment has already arrived. and that is tens of thousands of pounds of ammunition that is surface to air missiles and there's more heavy weapons including more houses, but also in those tanks that will be sent to the tech public and the tech republic, sending soviet built ones on that is all still in the pipeline the possession seps and still lingers that tony was a bit slow to move off the mock, but then dummy points at the bad situation its own on forces. i and right now we're looking at the bonus. thank you so much. well, in his speech to the german parliament, chancellor shalt also se ukraine had every right to defend itself,

adding it is our duty to support ukraine as best we can. germany has faith international criticism for its initial reluctance to supply ukraine with weapons. and then for the time it took them to deliver the german pants. i hope it's, it's 5001 of the most sophisticated at hilary systems in the world. almost 5 months after russia's invasion of ukraine. 7 of these self propelled houses have finally arrived on the battlefield. germany has long been accused of dragging its fields over the delivery of legal aid to ukraine. to counter such criticism, berlin has released a lengthy list of weapons and equipment. it is handed over to keefe it includes panza, faust, infantry, anti tank, rocket launchers, man, portable air defense systems or man parts that enables soldiers to down enemy aircraft. 60000000 rounds of ammunition. these deliveries proved useful in the

early stages of the war when ukrainian forces ambushed russian columns often at close range. ah, but against the massa tillery deployed by russia in the storm bus offensive ukraine needs more heavy guns of its own. germany has been slow to react, unlike some of its nato allies. o. u. s. has delivered over a 100 of these modern and hilary pieces and will soon then, long range missile systems. for poland has donated at least 18 self pelt. how it says and hundreds of soviet era tanks, germany to has pledged more heavy equipment on the to do list. the gear pot self propelled anti aircraft gun effective against low flying aircraft. the mos multiple launch rockets system, able to targets up to 80 kilometers away. empty state of the art iris t anti aircraft system. able to clear the sky of enemy aircraft and missiles,

what the 1st batch of gay pots and the mos launches, only slated for delivery july. the iris t white only arrived and ukraine in october. a long wait for country under constant attack from the air. and let's take a quick look at some other stories making headlines today. saudi arabia's crown friends mohammed ben salmone is visiting turkey for the 1st time since the killing of sony journal is jamal, how shoji plunged relations between the 2 countries into crisis. the crown prince has been needing turkish president, reggie type air to on, and on cora, after ergo, on visited rod in april, the remains of the congolese independence hero, patrice lamar have arrived in his home region more than 60 years after his death. the single tooth was all that was recovered from women was body after he was murdered. it will be taken on

a national tour of the democratic republic of congo before being buried. both of gary and prime minister carol pet coff has lost a confidence vote in parliament over his physical and economic policies potentially triggering new elections. pet coughs, government took office in december after free elections in the face of one year. his interest party now has a 2nd and last chance to form a coalition and a new bio pig telling the story of elvis presley heads movie theaters this week. presley scandalized the united states with his swinging hips and 1957 and became an overnight sensation in the process. let's take a look at what's in store. ladies and gentlemen, i didn't, butler is elvis young. so went to great lengths to get his portfolio right. was just being a sponge in reading every book that i could get my hands on watching everything and

every image that are costly, fine, trillion like a detective. and then also working with the number of different focal coaches on singing and working on that because voice or song course with tom hanks praise presley's controversial manager, colonel, tom parker. no, i don't know nothing about music, but i could see in that girl. so he was a taste of hook did include with di he was my destiny. i have to say you can not take your eyes off austin book no matter what the scene was, whether he is up on stage performing, singing full on full tilt the close to the vest. dedication was oppressive right off. the movie covers the milestones in the sink as life leading up to his tragic early death, but fails to dig deep. it's a visual face in the familiar bass,

dorman, directorial style review as loved it, and hated it. now cinema doas can decide and that's it. you're all up to date, stay 2 now or a documentary, looking at the decades of tension between around the us and israel to print off. we'll have more headlines at the top of the hour article really from me and the entire team here and our berlin newsroom. thank you so much for a company today with leonardo da vinci's, mysterious masterpiece. so this perhaps the greatest leonardo masterpiece in the collection of the louvre. it is the virgin of the rocks.