ah ah ah, this is dw news coming to live from berlin. a historic nato summit is under way and madrid. leaders are set to expand the alliance and boost its capacity. they, those chief says it's facing the biggest challenge since world war to bring you the latest from the summit. also coming up, accusations of war crimes after

a russian missile strikes, a shopping mall in ukraine. president blogging is lensky calls on the un to expel russia. and in washington revelations about how donald trump tried to cling to power the president with president capital. now a tells a hearing the trump new protesters were armed when he encouraged them to storm the capital building. 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 ukraine. finland in sweden will be formally invited to become mem,

after turkey dropped its opposition to them. joining the head of the alliance in stoughton back said, the summit would change nato for years to come. we will agree that biggest overall, while we collected the events that are in since the end of the cold war and u. s. is of course been much part of that. and then we will invite seen in the scene to join april. and that demonstrates, with naples door is open and it them was at the president who didn't, has not succeeded in closing, that was door that he is getting the opposite. the wealthy won't see once less they thought, percent booty is getting more and they thought, boy, of finance written, joining our alliance. well, currently the north atlantic treaty organization, nato consists of 30 members that includes the u. s. canada, most of mainland europe, the u. k. and turkey, which is heard nato chief engineer back there, say that sweden and finland can now be invited to join the defense organization if

they do, it would significantly bolster the alliances northern plank. both countries have cooperated with nato in a limited fashion for almost 30 years. and bring additional military assets to the table. that includes finland's more than $200000.00 reservists and sweden's submarine fleet. but finland also shares a 1300 kilometer border with the russian federation. and that could lead to additional tensions with moscow. i spoke to dw, corresponded terry schultz earlier, she is covering the nato summit for his imagery. i asked her how turkey was persuaded to drop its opposition to finland and sweden, joining nato were not yet sure, terry exactly what happened behind the scenes. there is 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 of 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 perch 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 and 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 an arms embargo on turkey, but that it would consider both importing and exporting more weapons. now, once it becomes a 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, who's looking for the position. you are going to get the nato ization of your and that's exactly what he didn't want with exactly what needs to be done to guarantee security for you. and i think i think it's necessary in looking for new president biden. they're describing what he called the nato, a zation of europe, and they toe is in fact, getting ready to announce what's being built, terry, as its 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 range from troops to, to weapons and pre positioning some of those resources in front line countries. a, there are 8 battle groups now, all 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 spend 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, 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. it'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 bedroom nato secretary general instinct mark is due to hold a news conference at the summit. later this hour will be bringing that news conference to you live when it happens. ukraine's president followed me. zalinski has urged the united nations to expel russia as a member and to label it a terrorist state, he addressed the un security council after

a russian miss al struck a shopping mall, killing at least 18 people. russia claims it didn't target the mall, but fired on a weapons depot nearby. according to ukraine, this was the moment a russian missile hit, sparking a fire that left this shopping mall and cram 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. so everything bend. absolutely. everything like a spark. i had people screaming, i don't know how to describe it. it shocked me. if it's horrible. those at those if it's terrible, be on warrants will cover how many people with their rush hour people who are

returning from work, lots of shops and sort of so they were always a lot of people in i'm sorry sicilian ta get it. i think you're good feeling of the rushes 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, no residential buildings, a shopping center, a football field, normally treat infrastructure in 5th to put it on tuesday present. zalinski urged the un security council to take action in response to the attack. and for the was, while it is imperative to deprive russia the opportunity to manipulate the un, it must be impossible for russia to stay in the security council as long as its terrorism continues those up. i see them. 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 kraven, chuck spoke a little while ago to dw correspondent conley, who's in kremlin shook, and i asked him to tell us more about the video released by the ukranian government that it says shows the moment the missile struck them all. 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 been 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 to destination. maybe of some of those weapons. the ukraine side dismisses that and puts the fact 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 out 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. one, wait, what went on here? some pro russian media was russian government media talking about attack on the oil refinery, which is 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 nurses coming to moscow, conflicting narratives and, and seemingly. yeah, an attempt to try an obscure will actually went on when went on him. nicholas st. several, miss al, strike sir, with deep inside ukraine over the past week. the attack on that mall in chrome and

choke 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. hundreds comes from van lines, definitely. now with the fighting has kind of localize itself along the front lines and the attack on the rest of the country that we saw in the report, this war has largely finished, but this is awfully reminded up. 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 this of see a painful reminder if you ignore those warnings that this is the risk into 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 in 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 referendum 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 detention. the timing's when this is gonna happen. this is definitely a threat from moscow not only to care, but also the west that russia is willing to escalate. and if ubs it and ukraine tries take, but those searches that russia considered its own, then russia might end up using nuclear weapons, defend them, so definitely willingness to escalate elise in terms of rhetoric for moscow. very much evidence. nick, thank you very much, shar corresponded nick connelly,

they're in kremlin chuck ukraine. germany and the netherlands have announced they'll send 6 additional howitzer artillery units to ukraine. that's in addition to the 12 dispatched last week, germany has also trained ukrainian army personnel to use the weapons. a crane has welcomed the delivery though. some say they've come to late. here's a close look at how the new weaponry being deployed on the front lines will work. we make our way through bushes anew. crane's eastern front line in the middle of a patch of woods stands, a howitzer tank from germany. it's the 1st time the ukrainian army has taken journalists here. this ukrainian soldier just returned from germany days ago. for more than a month, he was trained there. the time pressure for the troops is enormous, because the russian army is advancing further in the east. many field, the arrival of these howitzers is long overdue. the other was that i think it's too

late. much too late. but why should memorable we should have been prepared before february 24th? it was known that the russians would attack us amazon sienna, still between them. they'll never leave us alone. we should have been prepared in time, the rebel with watson, watson, for weeks, they've been fighting a losing battle. one of the soldiers shows us a video of their operations with completely outdated technology, but that's about to change. 12 howitzers have now arrived in ukraine 7 from germany and find from the netherlands. their location remains top secret. leave your keyword, no matter in which army of the world artillery is the 1st target for the enemy to eliminate what you want. because this technology is especially dangerous for them, for like a little male numbers, which there's not much we are allowed to show on the front line this morning. the

german army has told ukraine that even the inside of the howitzer tank needs to remain a secret brochure. but from us they asked us not to film inside . they were afraid that the information about the technology would fall into the invaders hands level drop a little obama on the tank, a provocative message to any russian troops they may meet. ready that too, is part of warfare. take a look at some other stories making headlines around the world today. authorities in the philippines have ordered the shut down of an investigative news website founded by nobel peace prize laureate maria ressa. raisa and her outlet wrap were ab repeatedly faced legal action over their criticism of outgoing president regret to charity presses said she would challenge the order in court trust, indian police, or on alert after the killing of

a hindu man in the northern rogers on state protesters condemned the murder of a, of a tailor by 2 muslim men who filmed the crime and posted it online. federal investigators are treating the killing as a terror incident. restaurants in china's commercial hub, shanghai are reopening after the cities to month, around a virus lockdown. official said, dinars have to present a negative p. c. r. test taken within 72 hours and patrons dining time is restricted to 90 men. in washington, a former white house aide has given dramatic testimony about donald trump's actions . when rioters stormed the russ capital building, the aid said trunk new protesters were armed and tried to seize control of a vehicle to drive to the capitol. she was speaking at ongoing hearings into the events of january 6th last year. and it raised her right here. having previously sought for fall close dog depositions or with former 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 a wet 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 of miss renate related to me, what followed was an excoriating account of an enraged president on the day of the capital siege. the president says in the effect of i'm yanking president, kicking up the capital. now the present reached up towards the front of the vehicle to crab act. the steering wheel mister angled 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 towards bobby angle. and mister, when mister or not, i had recounted a story to me. he motioned towards his clavicles. he's probably the remote, he rings to follow in the coming weeks, but this is the closest the investigation has come to the inner workings of the white house. on january 6, the day american democracy came close to collapse. ah, in texas 3 men have been charged in connection with the deaths of 51 people who were founded in an abandoned tractor trailer. the victims included migrants from mexico, guatemala, and honduras. u. s. president joe biden said the deaths were horrifying and heartbreaking. the w. washington bureau chief in us paul sent us this report from

this scene of the tragedy near the city of san antonio. on a route frequently used for people smuggling to water bottles. part of a spontaneous memorial honoring the migrants who were found dead in a trailer on this remote street. just out of san antonio. 50 people died of heat stroke and dehydration making this one of the deadliest border incidence in recent history. but it's not the 1st tragedy here. just 240 kilometers from mexico . i feel sad, you know, because those people come to you with fe to look for their dreams, you know, and some people find them and some people not. but they, they don't find that dream, you know? so they find him inside that plato have that, you know, they come over here to night, is there to make a better living in the me

a lot of money get here. and then people, you know, abuse them, texas governor abbot put the blame squarely on the president saying the tragedy was the result of biden's open board of policies. technically, the border is still closed for most migrants, part of co which restrictions that are still in place. president biden finds himself in a difficult situation when it comes to migration policies. and this is dangerous for him because his challenges will make migration a central topic in the midterm election this november and also in the presidential elections in 2024. a sub in 7 years since paris was struck by one of europe's worst islamist terrorist attacks, which killed a 130 people all. but one of this suspected terrorists died at the bath o'clock, concert hall,

and other locations to day or court is expected to deliver its verdict against the soul. living accused attacker of saba, up the slum, dw, met some of the survivors who were following his trial closely. for the past 10 months. caffeine baton felt she was in a parallel universe. she's the survivor of the batter, glen attack, and still traumatized by that night's events. now she has been attending the trial and sketching portraits of those testifying, including some unsung heroes casa, sits in one year or so, while listening to the civil plaintiffs. i realized how these terror attacks have impacted the lives of thousands of people and the sampling. one police officer michel arrived with his team at the paddock land just after the attack began. they got every one who was wounded outside till the blizzard. then special forces got there and told michelle and his colleagues to go directly traffic, although they were covered in blood without it. it was only when he testified that

people heard how me shall help people that night is on book with. he and his colleagues had never got any acknowledgment from their bosses. a volunteer cuoco, oakland, his halls, the father lawyer ashy. the coolest case has been hearing how the terrorist killings pre unfolded across the french capital. only one of the 10 attackers who were in paris that night survived selah of islam. he's become a focal point of the trial. some at then while back in the past, i couldn't draw the terrorist sushi. i was so unwell after the attacks that my psychologist and i decided i should just see the attackers as monsters. so i illustrated aptis lamb as a suicide belt with a beard. a roar, but as the hearings went on, i got more and more desensitized and suddenly i found myself drawing optis lamps face. it's like this court cases finally made me, except that humanity includes the best and the worst. it is a,

i'm a new court room was especially built for the mammoth trial, which has been symbolically important for france, says, are killed in war himself, a butter clad survivor, and head of one of the victims associations said of host of through this trial, frances proven it stranded at his legislation even before 2015 or sound enough to judge what happened that night. so the court case really has shown that terrorism is a dead end. it doesn't produce heroes. that might seem obvious, but some youngsters are still attracted to his law. make terrorism. yeah, i hope this will make everybody understand that there's no future in terrorism and such attacks need to stop furniture yoke on their long doors. and folks apartment the end of the trial is an important step for everybody involved. not just because of the verdict. smith boy, the colon this all the little who are deeply implicated in the attack such as sola, after slum, i need to get a harsh sentence,

sudafed. but the end of the court case also means i can finally be able to stop being a victim. i'll be able to turn to other things, school or domain. that's a big step forward. it is it palo bessie! what happened that night at the back line will always stay a part of caitlin. but some of that weight on her shoulder is now finally going to fall away. a german court has sentenced a former nazi concentration camp gar, to 5 years in prison for complicity and war crimes. during the holocaust, the man identified as use of s was found guilty of being an excess route to murder . he worked at the saxon house and concentration camp between 942 and 1944. hiding his face, but no longer able to hide from justice, former ss god joseph s,

was wheeled into a court room to finally answer for his crimes. nearly 80 years after the holocaust judges found the now 101 year old man guilty of aiding and abetting the murder of thousands of prisoners in his oxen house in concentration, camp north of berlin. through day, even the judge admitted that the sentence of 5 years in prison hardly stands in relation with horrendous crimes committed in blacksmith housing for the family of the victims. though that's not the point for them, it was just important to stand today in a german court and tell the world about the loved ones. they lost in that concentration camp. over 200000 people, mostly jews were imprisoned in his oxen has in camp between 19361945. joseph was alleged to have taken part in the mass med, is there playing

a role in firing squad executions. and in the deployment of the poisonous gas cycle and be in the gas chambers. this trial sends a message if you commit crimes like this even 80 years later, you might be brought to justice. these trials are important in the fight against holocaust denial and holocaust distortion and their relatives of the victims are relieved by the guilty verdict. some fear that because of joseph's age, he may not spend a day behind bars. that's because if he appeals the decision, it could be yet another year before he goes to prison. that the families of those he perished had the child still sends a message that justice has no time limits to africa now and northern mozambique were a spate of geo hottest related violence as display some 20000 people this month is almost have been attacking villages and parts of the cobbled delgado region that

were a long considered safe from such strikes. the region is rich and oil and gas, but investments worth billions have now been put on hold. here's more from dw corresponded. adrian creech, they just wants to leave here in unquiet the district. hundreds of people are waiting for a lift desperate to get to safety after several villages, where attacked by islamists in recent weeks. many places are now deserted. the village of watch out the edge of the district has been spent until now, residents are discussing what to do next. gov on premier rule, the long desert again, and pursue the guise of these events. we need to protect ourselves better. we need to check the identity of the people coming here. is that when the board, but we also want to welcome those people who are fleeing my kindergarten and take care of them that are without it but the discounts. huh. they have taken in 60 people from neighboring villages so far out there, or orlando,

or by attacked our village, vulnerable. why 1st they set fire to the villages close by rod, we were surrounded, but then we saw a chance to escape arcadia. so we ran it and that we survived, but they burned our houses to the ground. they, i'm just tired and my feet are swollen and heard. we walked 30 kilometers to get here and it will balance out planning amber bullet. we walked for 3 day, but spent a night in the bush with our children. now we are tired, but we feel much safer here. oh, so philip leonard, until now they have not received any support from the government. the insurgents have been pushed out of their previous strongholds in the north of the province. and although observers, they, they are not as strong as previously. the attacks on villages around here is causing fear and panic. they are inflicting gorilla style warfare on communities

that were previously considered. safe vaccinate places more danielle. and while the 8 organizations fear that the con legs could spread, and we were surprised that the conflict moved to the south, that week is more bullish in our moving to the from places village. one of the more complex i think, yes, the capacity of the system is one of the woozy, but i think he is we will, we will face some some issues with the largest secondary school in want to push is already at full capacity since the beginning of the crisis, the number of students here has doubled to 7000, is new management has had to turn away newly arriving dismiss students to allow him to include got a note that we have in a water coming up like this. it's difficult, some classes have 100 students, some up to 140 but doesn't make it easy for the teachers. as you can see again, the switchboard, bye.