ah ah ah ah, this is dw news alive from berlin. nato countries declare russia the most significant and direct threat to security in europe. nato unveils a revamped strategy with finland and sweden, formally invited to join. and russia officially out of any partnerships moscow called the move aggressive, also coming up on the shelf, ukraine's president accuses russia of further war crimes after missiles hit a shopping mall in one of the deadliest rights on his civilian center. since the

war began, our correspondent is at the scene with the latest, plus some ukrainians who fled the russian invasion are making their way back home. despite the ongoing threats from russian attacks. ah. hello, i am claire richardson, thanks so much for joining us. nato leaders have declared russia the main threat to their security as a new strategic plan is defined for the military alliance. the new plan extends a welcome to likely future members, finland and sweden. it also increases the level of troop rotations in the baltic states. leaders have also made it clear that russia has lost its position as a strategic partner after moscow invasion of ukraine. sweden's prime

minister, magdalena anderson arriving at the nato summit. but if all goes to plan her country, along with finland, should soon put aside decades of neutrality to become members of the military alliance. and this is the man making it possible. after weeks of wrangling turkey's president, reject type ad one has dropped his opposition to them joining, giving current members something to smile about at the summit of a full lines is going to welcome finland and suite of historic application from membership and their decision to move away. busy from neutrality of traditional neutrality to join, no life is going to make stronger and more secure, and nato stronger. the summit comes against the background of russia's war in ukraine, which is forced nato to rethink its mission. we face

a rather cold change or to our security environments on so to jig, competition is rising around the world. so the day leaders have endorsed naples, new strategic concept. it makes clear that russia's russia pulses the most significant android extra toilers, security in the current, consult with faith about the russia is a strategic partner. she, to drive home the point, ukraine's president of a low to me as a lensky was on video lately. to remind nato, what conflict with russia looks like, miss olivia mendoza says, living now, this is not a war being waged by russia against only a crane. this is a war for the right to dictate conditions in europe for what the future world order will look like. a dream of that is why it is absolutely necessary to support ukraine. now, you know, with weapons fully funds and political sanctions against russia,

which will stop it, being able to pay for the wall, se absolute than the other. nato promised it would not tenants back on cave present. zalinski made clear that ukraine relies on our continued support. and our message to him was equally clear. ukraine can count on us for as long as it takes the u. s. has already said it will increase its military presence in europe, including a permanent garrison in poland. it seems the russian threat is held to make nature look the strongest it has for years. and he w as brussels bureau chief, alexandra han nominees, reporting for us from that meeting in the dread. earlier i asked her about nato now calling russia the most significant and direct threat to security. well, clara, this is us fundamental change of nato security assessment in the euro and plan tick

area. and we just need to remind ourselves that russia was mentioned as a strategic partner in the last strategic concept that was approved in 2010. and at this time to meet, she made video that then president of the russian federation was even invited to participate in a nato a summit. so you understand that this is a fundamental change. and now nato is saying they understand that russia is seeking to establish spheres of influence using annexation, aggression subversion. and of course, the reason for the different assessment is the war in ukraine, and we had a chance to speak with some officials after ukrainian president zalinski addressed to the leaders. and they told us that the nato leaders in the room. they really had this understanding that ukraine is not only fighting for european or trans atlantic

values, but they're also fighting for nato. there things in day looking very different than they have in the past. and what other key changes did you pick up on in nato's new strategic concept, which we just her against oldenburg announcing? well, i think what we also need to mention is that for the very 1st time, china, it's mentioned in this strategic concept. and of course, it was important to address at china and, and, and, and china's growing influence. china is described in this concept as a challenge to native security and interests. it was especially important for the european allies to have this different wording. there are different than compared to, to russia because of course, as nato is saying in this, in this concept at the alliance is willing and open to engagement with

china. so china is a challenge. russia is a threat. and that was our brussels bureau chief, alexandra on nomine in madrid. now let's go to d. w as kilian buyer. he's been following the latest developments from riga lat via a welcome at kelly. and i'm guessing the baltic states have been watching closely as nato has announced, plans to reinforce it's eastern flank. what has the reaction been there? well, i think the nato's, the reaction to nato strategic plan and it, the plan really didn't come as a surprise to the leaders of the baltic states because we, as we heard from the latvian foreign minister yesterday evening, there had been intensive negotiations going on in the weeks leading up to the summit, but at the baltic states, i think they managed to get quite a bit of their ideas into this document. they have been calling out for a long time, demanding more troops on the ground. and we actually heard this as well. and our trips to lithuania, for instance, we spoke with defense politicians who said exactly that they,

they would wish i'm an increase of a nato troop presence. they said a brigade strength force would be a significant deterrence towards russia. and it seems they have gotten exactly that natural, similar through ania as germany at long last month, but all over the baltic states. and so i think people are relieved here because there is quite some concern about russia and or minus exactly why it is that the baltic states are so worried about a potential russian attack. well, i think we need to take a look at the geo politics of the region. if you need to look at killing grad rushes, x play of, of collision garage, which is in between lithuania and poland on the baltic sea. and it really acts as an unsinkable aircraft carrier in, in the baltic sea. russia has significant anti aircraft capabilities and anti shipping capabilities. and military terms is called anti access area denial. so really what russia can do is they can block any plane in

a 400 kilometer radius and a sink and you ships that pass by. so the only way really to resupply the baltic states is by land. and this land connection is it has to go through a very, very narrow corridor. it's called this walkie gap and it's a potentially vulnerable point for the alliance. also coming out of the nato meeting today, sweden and finland have now been formally invited to joined the alliance. what does that change for security in the region? well actually, you know, it changes everything for the security of the baltic states because if sweden and finland actually become nato members, and it's been reputed a few times today already, but it is significant. the, the, the baltic sea becomes a nato lake in essence. and so there are a few options, potentially, it would be possible to resupply the baltics in case of an attack through finland down to estonia over the water. but even if that's not possible, it would open up

a gigantic flank for russia. finland has a border that's about 1300 kilometers long between russia and finland. and that's the area they need to take care of, that they have to deploy troops there. and so they don't have the acids to focus on on the territory. so in bi reporting for us from rica, thanks so much for that updates. and meanwhile, ukraine's president volunteers lensky has urged the united nations to expel russia as a member and label at a terrorist state. he addressed the one security council after a russian miss al, struck a shopping mall, killing at least 18 people. russia claims it wasn't targeting them ball, saying it had fired on a weapons depot nearby. according to ukraine, this was the moment a 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 work is still picking through the rubble in the city. far from the front lines residence are in shock. oh, super feature thing bend. absolutely. everything looked like a spark. i had people screaming, i don't know how to describe it. it shocked me. it was horrible. with those of it'll just, it's terrible beyond words. how many people with their rush hour people were returning from work? which lots of shops and foot if there were always a lot of people in amsterdam versus selena ta get it. i think you're gonna filling up. but russia's defense ministry claims. it didn't target them all saying it struck this nearby 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. clue, no residential buildings, a shopping center, a football field normally treat infrastructure in 1st 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, which 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 kremlin chuck or correspondence. nick connelly is on the ground in crime. and chuck, i asked him earlier about the video. we saw that ukraine says it shows the strike on the shopping mall. we been trying to work out how far this all stacks up,

how it all fits. we went to the sites of the factory where that was filmed from that's over there. on the other side of the shopping center and then where behind the impact site for that missiles strike. and we compared the location and compared what we saw on that video that was published by volume zalinski grants, prison. and we thought we saw and it all makes sense. you got stuff at the factory in the foreground, that is untouched. so that russian explanation that russian version but somehow there was destination at the fact that it spread here just doesn't stack up to look, find me here. there's basically devastation in the shopping center. then there are green trees further over there that were not touch. the fire did not spread from that side. this was any by that hit this shopping center to behind me that you see where the roof of basically taken off. that is where the missile hit. and then slightly further to my other side, you can see the bits where the fire engulfed, the shopping center didn't bring the roof down, but basically turned everything that was that to dust, everything was inside that store. or it could be accurate fumes still now and the firefights having to wear protective equipment,

but it is just very dangerous working there. they've been working nonstop for basically 48 hours and anal, basically largely occupied with trying to find the bodies of about 35 people that are still believed to be under those that rebel into the attack on that wall is the most deadly of a series of missile strikes that we have seen on cities deep inside ukraine over the last week. how is that affecting how ukrainians are going about their daily lives? it's definitely a shock. it's definitely a wake up call. these are warnings, these air raid signals they often are owned for about 34 hours a day. so if you're trying to go about your daily business, we're trying to go about your job. basically, you have a choice between earning a living and staying safe. now people here have been telling us that there was an additional warning on top of the normal region wide warning for the city. a couple of minutes before this shopping center was attack that allowed a number of people we believe to get out and to head to neighboring buildings and their sellers. so had it not been without warning, probably much,

many more people would have lost their lives. but it is very sobering, this a city that is hundreds of gumps away from the front lines where basically, they'd only seen attacks in the 1st few weeks of this war when russia attacked the oil 1st. think says he, the citizens then they had lot to be left alone and the base have been following the wall in the news like everyone else. so the fact that this city like anywhere else, and ukraine is very definitely within range of those russian cruise missiles has really brought home by this attack. and most people we've spoken to here who said they all gonna sign up to fight. they may be warned, the territorial is not sure if they want to go inside front lines. but seeing that even if they were just trying to go about their day life, their families, their friends, could end up the victims of rush themselves. that has really ramped home, the impact this war to people living in cities and ukraine, that a thought they had kind of got pasta was this in it before i let you go, i want to ask you about another development in this for on a russian at news agency tasks has announced that the russian controlled ukrainian region of her son has begun preparations for a so called a referendum on joining russia. are we seeing an effort here by russia to an annex

more ukrainian territory? different looks that way. at the beginning, this will we remember the kremlin glen fusion talking about you russia, having no intention to annex further ukrainian charity. that obviously is just as credible as lots of the other caveat they'll, they'll promise that were made in the beginning. this will when russia claimed it was in this 2 quotes denotes by ukraine. what that means. i think 1st of all, much is the warning. this is a warning to ukraine, that if it makes more advance, isn't that part of the country where ukraine is actually doing quite well, that russia will basically annex these territories, hold a referendum that probably won't be recognized by any one but russia, and then use that that idea that this is part of russia to threaten the use of nuclear weapons, should ukraine try and take those areas back. and this is a warning to the wider world that is now stepping up deliveries of weapons to ukraine, that russia is willing to escalate at least rhetoric case. there's definitely a warning whether or not people hearing ukraine us weighed much by this. i don't think so. i think they're expecting that from the russian side, but definitely russia trying to carry out these kind of pseudo legal steps to

somehow justify what they're doing. the economy reporting from crime and truck. thank you so much for that update. and millions of ukrainians have fled their homeland. since russia's invasion are with the fighting now concentrated in eastern and southern regions. many believe it's relatively safe to return home. they are eager to resume their everyday lives, despite the threat of rushing bombs. time to say good bye at berlin's men, both station these bosses are taking ukrainian refugees back home. now that the focus of fighting has shifted to eastern ukraine. more and more people are daring to go back to say for areas said law to how dead sca and her daughters, bladder and janaya, are waiting for a bus to keep moving and miss home and miss al house. i want to go back the door door on it. we miss friends, mr. family people we haven't seen of a 3 month now and it's hard to be on the road like that all the time. even though

it was some of them, it's not even possible to connect online, so i just want to see them for boys. but their mothers, for atlanta is worried about the trip. i love the fortune ladder wants to go home. i can't send her to kiff and stay here myself from a rational point of view. it's definitely safer here because it cannot know how will russia act? the dumb will yet from approve of that. over 800000 ukranian refugees have arrived in germany since rushes attack in february. but the number of new arrivals has been decreasing for weeks. now, the number of people returning to ukraine from the e u is exceeding the number arriving. listen, we have my husband is a soldier. he is in a hospital now and he doesn't have any one besides us. when you was at dorm, um, so i miss my home, my car, my garden dodge,

and i miss ukraine along europe. she is. okay. mr. hodges, richard o'brien, oh let's see. i want to see my relatives and ukraine to not, but i'll come back because i come from nikolai avenue and it's close to where the bathroom that's happening. so now i'm just going there for a short time. the driver say they're now carrying people in both directions. so can we drive every day from you canes, and to ukraine? our company, st. 6 to 7 buses and all of them a fool with 6 the people inside. finally, svetlana and vlad has boss arrives. sit lana's, eldest daughter janaya, bids them farewell. she will stay in berlin for a few more weeks and joined them in july. provided that is that the war doesn't force this family and others to flee ukraine again. 7

let's bring you up to speed now with some other world news headlines, a french court is expected to deliver its verdict against the sole surviving accused perpetrator of the 2015 paris terrorist attack. $130.00 people died in the assault on a concert hall and bars in one of europe's worst islamist terrorist attacks. 19 other men are also on trial for helping to planet. tensions are high in india's northern rochester, on state a day after police, arrested to muslim men accused of murdering a hindu taylor and posting a video of it online. the killing comes after months of rising tensions between hindus and muslims raising fears of more violence and restaurants in china's commercial hub. shanghai are reopening after the cities to month. corona virus lockdown officials, they dinars, have to present

a negative p. c. r. test taken within 72 hours and patrons dining time is restricted to 90 minutes. and in washington, a former white house aide has given dramatic testimony about donald trump's actions . when rioters stormed the u. s. capital building, the aid said trump knew protesters were armed and tried to seize control of a vehicle to drive to the capitol. she was speaking at ongoing hearings, investigating the events of january 6th last year and and res, arriving. having previously sought for for clothes dog depositions 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 on the donald trump was aware riots as were armed. when they 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 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 the acting president, taking up the capitol. now the president reached up towards the front of the vehicle to crab at 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 capital. mister trump then used his free hand to lunch toward bobby angle and listen. when mister or not, i had recounted a story to me. he motioned towards his clavicles, use 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, but day american democracy came close to collapse. ah, and in texas 3 men have been charged in connection with the death of $51.00 people who were found dead in an abandoned tractor trailer. the victims included migrants from mexico, guatemala, and honduras. he was president, joe biden said, the debts were horrifying and heartbreaking. he w, washington bureau chief in as pulls and this report from the scene of the tragedy. here the city of san antonio, about 250 kilometers north of the mexican border to water bottles. part of the 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 fair, 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 review. so they find them inside that plato have dead, 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 migrant part of cobra 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. and for the 1st time in it's 150 year history, london's victoria and albert museum is giving, taught billing to african fashion. next mission. opening this weekend, tells the story of clothing from the continent and its profound influence on global fashion. african fashion is claiming its place on the world stage. after years of being viewed only through the post colonial lens. the exhibition showcases the vibrant depth of african design from the beginnings of the continents liberation in the 1950s to the present day. on display are more than 250 objects, including the works of 45 designers from over 20 countries. as part of

a wider pushed by the victoria and albert to acknowledge colonial histories within the museum. it's a timely show. it was really important that she vital to half the sex of this. and right now, because we see is the african creates, is that a shifting the landscape of global fashions? that's how important the impact is right now. so they demand to be seen a demand to be heard, and we see the impacts spitting out across global functions. preparations for the show took more than 2 years and included a public college for rare designs, family portraits, and pieces of clothing connected to personal stories. designers themselves were also involved in deciding how their pieces would be displayed. we really see fashion as a capitalist with which to tell deep her rich expanded stories about the myriad histories and cultures across the continent. and so we hope that offices will come

away feeling inspired, and perhaps some assumptions might be challenged as well. creativity, ingenuity, and a multiplicity of traditions. from morocco to nigeria, ghana to south africa, africa fashion celebrates a continental fashion scene, with unstoppable global impact. stay turn daily news. asia is coming up next. ah ah ah

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