nothing, and that is taking him into starting july 6th. ah ah, this is dw news coming to live from berlin, historic nato. so it is underway in madrid. leaders are set to expand the alliance and boost its capacity. natives cheap says it's facing the biggest challenge since world war 2 will bring you the latest from the summit. also coming up, accusations of war crimes after a russian missile strikes,

a shopping mall in new crank, resident below the merits. lensky calls on the you end to expel russian. ah, hello, i'm terry martin. good to have you with us. nato leaders are meeting in the spanish capital, madrid for a major summit, which is likely to expand the alliance. leaders are expected to declare russia as their main strategic threat following its invasion of ukraine. finland and sweden will be formally invited to become members after turkey dropped its opposition to them joining the heads of the alliance, young stroke, the head of the alliance. young sheldon back said the summit would change nato for years to come. old. we will agree that biggest over hole while we collected the pencil turn since the end of the cold war and us is of course been much part of that then. and then we will invite scene to the scene to join

a thought on that them asserts of naples door is open and it them assert that the president who didn't, has not succeeded in closing, that was door and he is getting the opposite. the wealthy won't see wants unless they thought percent boot is getting more and they thought boy of finance written, joining our alliance or corresponded terry schultz is in madrid, covering that summit. terry ne tote says it can now except finland in sweden as new members after turkey agreed to stop blocking their membership bid. how was turkey persuaded to go along with that? were not yet sure, terry exactly what happened behind the scenes. there's a lot of suspicion that the u. s. had something to do with it from afar, although they had said they wanted to stay out of it and make it very much as a trilateral issue. but in the end, we have documents that are signed. so we know exactly what was agreed to yesterday

between the 3 leaders and president air to one is purchase portraying this as a win for him. finland and sweden are saying, you know, we didn't really give away that much. but the main point is that the finland and sweden are declaring their support for turkey. they will reinforce their efforts to counter terrorism and for turkey that means against the p k. k, which is a kurdish organization that's already designated as a terrorist entity by the entire european union. so of course these 2 countries as well, they will take into account turkish information when looking at extradition requests . there are kurdish people in finland and sweden that turkey would very much like to have sent back. the, the finish of swedish governments aren't too keen on that. there will also be more movement on imports and exports of arms. now finland in particular, said it never had in arms embargo on turkey, but that it would consider both importing and exporting more weapons. now, once it becomes and nato ally, so these are things that budge turkey in the end. and as you can hear from all of

these comments, they are very, very happy here at the nato summit to be able to talk about unity instead of the headlines they otherwise would have been dealing with and deter the deal in sweden and finland. joining nato has been widely welcomed within the the alliance. here's what us present, joe biden said earlier in his meeting with native secretary general was looking for the physical ization. you're going to get the nato is ation of urine. and that's exactly what he didn't want with exactly what needs to be done to guarantee security for you. and i think it's, i think it's necessary. i'm looking forward to happen, the president biden. they're describing what he called the nato zation of europe. and they to is, in fact, getting ready to announce what's being billed, terry, as it's biggest strategies to strategy shift since the end of the cold war. tell us what the main changes are underway. that's right,

nato will adopt at this meeting a 10 year plan looking into the future. but there will also be many practical changes. and the biggest among them is that the number of troops kept on high readiness will rise from 40000, as it is today, up 230-0000. that is a massive increase and it will depend on all allies putting at nato's hands. resources that a range from troops to, to weapons and a pre positioning some of those resources in frontline countries. a, there are 8 battle groups now a lining the eastern flank against russia. and we will also see countries increase their funding above the 2 percent of g d p. that is now the nato aim. and president biden, in fact, just announced a huge increase in us resources. and that is going to span not just the eastern countries, but here they're also going to be reinforcing in germany, in italy, in the u. k. very important for poland. the u. s. will put

a permanent army headquarters there. now, the word permanent has always been very touchy with nato because it, there were agreements not to permanently station along russia's border that was blown away with, with rushes, invasion of ukraine, like so many other understandings. and the u. s. will also be reinforcing in romania and they're talking about thousands of troops. so this truly is going to be an historic summit in terms of how nato is building up against what it now sees as a very persistent threat from russia. that's going to last for years to come. terry, thank you so much for your reporting, and i look forward to talking to you throughout the day. that was our correspond. terry schultz there at the nato summit in madrid. well, ukraine's president followed me. zalinski has urged the united nations to expel russia as a member and label it a terrorist state. he addressed the un security council after a russian missile struck, struck a shopping mall, killing at least 18 people. russia claims it did not target them all that fired on a weapons depos nearby. according to ukraine,

this was the moment to russian missile hit, sparking a fire that left the shopping mall and crab and chuck in ruins. and dozens of people dead and missing. with rescue workers still picking through the rubble in the city. far from the front lines. residence are in shock. oops. of speech, everything burned for you. absolutely. everything looked like a spark. you. i heard people screaming in i don't know how to describe it. it shocked me. it was horrible at those, it's terrible beyond words on the screen cover. how many people were there? speaker, deluge of a rush hour people were returning from work. how would you like lots of sharps sort of served out. there were always a lot of people and i'm starving and i talked in,

i think, but russia's defense ministry claims. it didn't target the mole, saying it struck this near by building instead. according to moscow, it was ammunition being stored here, exploding that started the fire that both ukrainian officials and locals denied. there was a weapons depot in the area. close natalie at the mot residential buildings, a shopping center and a football field, yet no military infrastructure. to put it on tuesday presidency. lensky urged the un security council to take action in response to the attack and for the was violator. it is imperative to deprive the russian which allegation of the opportunity to manipulate the wed is imperative to make impossible for russia to stay in the un security council. as long as its terrorism continues up. i see you there was but with russia holding veto power on the council, there's almost no chance for it facing consequences at the un for the destruction and death here in crevice. chuck our correspondent,

nick conley is in ukraine. he's on the scene in a crime and shock. we're that missile strike took place sir. nick, the ukrainian government has released a video that it says shows the moment of impact when the missiles struck them all. what more can you tell us about that video? that video which seemingly comes from a security camera shows a missile hitting in the foreground. you see some industrial equipment stored. we haven't be able to get there yet. we're hoping to get there in the next few hours to see the direction from which it was filmed. to make sure that fits the geography here, but certainly if you talk to people here on the ground locals, they point to the patent destruction behind me of this shopping mall. one side basically fully collapsed. they say that the impact, whereas l aside burnt out, the russian version is that a fire spread from the factory behind the small and that it's, you know, spread to the, to the mall by mistake through destination, maybe of some of those weapons. the ukraine side dismisses that and puts that there

is quite some gap between the area of the factory that was hit and the small that those claims wouldn't have spread. so this is now a question of fact checking up to just on the ground, trying to do those calculations, get that information to be able to challenge those narratives. it is also important to put out the russians are coming out with lots of different and mutually conflicting versions of what, what went on here. some pro russian media was russian government media talking about attack on the oil refinery, which a tankless way. others talking about an attack on the train station which wasn't hit that is also not far away. and then finally, some russian topic mounts talking about ukraine attacking itself to try and get sympathy and support internationally. so lots of different narratives coming out of moscow, conflicting narratives and, and seemingly. yeah, an attempt to try an obscure, well, actually went on when went on him. nicholas seemed several miss al, strikes sir, with deep inside ukraine over the past week. the attack on that mall in chrome and chalk is the most deadly. how are people in ukraine reacting to all this

well, definitely, it is shocking. it is scary for people who may be thought that they are in some kind of safety here. 100 comes from the van lines. definitely. now where the fighting has kind of localized itself along the front lines and the attack on the rest, the country that we saw in the early bought this war has largely finished. but this is of the reminder that those arid warnings are crucial. even if it's very inconvenient every day, basically you have a couple of hours where those air raid warnings are in place. and most people trying to go about the day long trying to burn living. i just not able to actually spend all that time down the seller or hiding somewhere, but they still see a painful reminder if you ignore those warnings that this is the risk and there is no part of ukraine started. it is out of range of these long range russian cruise missiles the russian news agency tass announced that the russian controlled region of cason has begun preparations for a referendum on joining russia proper. could that mean, nick, that russia is planning to annex more ukrainian territory?

definitely looks like that as being the war. you remember, the russians said that this was not their intention. they said that they were not interested in occupying biting bits off of ukraine, that this was about d knots upon ukraine. what of that means? and demilitarize and ukraine. now that is all long forgotten, and it seems like they are now try to hand out russian passports in these areas. and, you know, hold some kind of a friend them like they did in crimea in 2014 referendum that wasn't recognized by anyone outside russia as fair or free to try and justify taking that territory. now we don't have much more detailed terms. the timing's when this is going to happen. this is definitely a threat from moscow not only ski, but also the west that russia is willing to escalate. and if of the, then ukraine tries to take those searches that russia considered its own, then russia might end up using nuclear weapons, defend them. so definitely willingness to escalate, at least in terms of rhetoric for moscow. very much evidence. nick, thank you very much, shar corresponded nick connelly. they're in kremlin shock. ukraine

in washington, a former white house aide has given dramatic testimony about donald trump's actions . when riots are a storm. the russ capital building, the aides said trump knew protesters were armed and tried to seize control of a vehicle to drive to the capitol himself. she was speaking of ongoing hearings into the events of january 6th last year and had raised her right in. having previously sought for fall close dog depositions or bid form, a white house aide was about to throw political grenade into the select committee investigating donald trump's role in the storming of the u. s. capital may be seated. cassidy hutchinson told the hearing. white house officials had been warned about potential violence and that donald trump was aware riots as were armed. when we arrived in washington, d. c, is hutchinson. is it your understanding that mister or nato told the president

about weapons at the rally on the morning of january 6? as a miss renate relate to me? what followed was an excoriating account of an enraged president. on the day of the capital siege. the president says in the fact of, i'm yanking president, kicking up to the capital now the present reached up towards the front of the vehicle to crab act, a steering wheel. mister engel grabbed his arm, said sir, and to take your hand off the steering wheel. we're going back to the west way. we're not going to the capitol. mister trump then used his free hand to lunch toward bobby angle and listen when the sonata had recounted a story to me, he motioned towards his clavicles. use the remote hearings to follow in the coming weeks, but this is the closest the investigation has come to the inner workings of the

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