ah ah ah ah ah, this is dw, the live from berlin. nato members wrap up their summit with pledges for a significant increase in combat forces. german chancellor, olaf shoulds, says nato as a defensive alliance with no intention of committing acts of aggression. also coming up on the show, russia conceived some occupied territory to ukraine. it hands backed sneak island

in the black sea. after months of heavy fighting. and belgium returns the golden tooth of a congolese independence hero who was executed decades ago. it is the only remnant of patrice limone by and to remind her of belgium's brutal colonial past. ah, hello, i am clear. richardson, thank you so much for joining us. nato leaders have ended a 3 day summit with a pledge to continue supporting you crate. the last day of the madrid meeting also focused on the global food crisis. nato leaders blamed russia for rising food and energy prices, and reiterated their mutual defense commitments. chairman at chancellor olaf

shoulds says nato is more important than ever for global security. he stressed the alliance is defensive and dismissed any suggestion it could threaten other countries. does this elisha visit seemeth literally? this is honestly pretty ridiculous infancy. in fact, nato is a defensive alliance, and then it does not attack other countries and has no intention of doing so on diagnose. it is not a threat to any one within its own neighbourhood. in fact, it is putin who has made imperialism. the goal of his policies on the object of his products must have some gigs done on a politic. so that was a german chance are all actual to speaking. there in the great at the nato summit. and here with me in the studio is that if medical correspondent, i mean young. hi simon. what stood out to you about short speech there? well, i think it was a quite a pat speech of announcements. he announced a continuing true commitment from germany to strengthen nature easton flank and he puts a numbers on that. so that will be an alma division with $15000.00 soldiers. there'll

be 60 planes 20 marine vessels and a regional marine command in the baltic sea. and he suggested that germany would be ready to take over the leadership of that. so a big package of specific things that german armed forces are going to commit to in the medium and long term. he also said other encouraging things. i think for instance, in the direction of sweden and finland, the german parliament, would me very soon perhaps even this week to ratify bringing those 2 countries, nordic countries, new members of nato in. and he also talked about the relationship between nato and russia, which is based on the so called nature, russia founding act. and he repeated his message, the nato should not abandon that. he said, it was important to keep to those sort of basic principles of an understanding

between russia and nato, despite the aggression that russia has shown. so, i mean, he talks about all the aspects of supporting you crying, but made it clear that germany stands firm in this alliance. that's all to make those commitments. but how ready do you think the german government not to mention the german public, is that you get on board with this more muscular approach to russia from nato? well, i think the german political establishment has made that mental shift already. you remember just is a speech about this is a pocket change that russia has brought, and it's clear to people now that russia is not a partner as it once was seen it's anniversary and the response is necessary. any part? it's going to be military. the government, after committing a 100000000000 euros to injection of spending into the german armed forces. i think if you're looking wider in the german public,

then of course there are different views. it rather depends how long that commitment to ukraine you, both for ukraine is going to be needed. there's a poll recently saying that 52 percent of germans just over half are behind the idea that the west will back ukraine as long as it takes, that's the phrase we voted again again over the past few days. 32 percent of german saying they don't take a positive view of that so you can see that the support now. but i think if things drag on too long, germans appetite, newfound appetite for military spending may, may white. as i'm also interested in the power dynamics within nato itself. would you say we're seeing a shift in leadership so to speak, to europe versus the traditional united states leg work order? yeah, i think i think we are seeing that your cost, your mind back to 2019, when president micron of france said that it was showing signs of being brain dead

. and one of the things he was worried about was, what he saw was an increasing lack of commitment by the u. s. to nato now has to the whole western lives they to take. there's been galvanized by russian aggression . so i think you're getting both things. you're getting a shift towards europe, seeing that with new members, sweden and finland coming in, and you know, the changing position, the from the, from the germans of many other countries. biden prep praising no more than half of nature and is now. so you got them spending targets up to or indeed above the 2 percent of g d p. that is the nature target. some of them up around 3 percent of g . d, p, a, spending on military spending. so your opinions are doing a lot. they're catching up, but at the same time, we're seeing these new commitments from the u. s. as well, with thousands of troops more permanently station troops and units in countries

like poland, romania across the, across europe. so i think it's both, it's both a european and american commitment to the security of europe. and that means also by the way, a pivot pivot away from a focus on the pacific asia pacific region, which is something that is also important. and also in view and our correspondence, simon young pleasure is always to speak with you. thanks for joining me here. are you as president joe biden has also announced an additional $800000000.00 in aid for ukraine? he said, stopping rushes, advance is critical for global security. before the war started, i told boot and that if he invaded ukraine, nato would not only get stronger, but would get more united. and we would, she would say democracy in the world, stand up and opposes aggression and defend the rules based order. that's exactly what we're seeing today. this summit was about strengthening our alliance meeting

the challenges of our world as it is today, and the threats we're going to face in the future, which all hickman is with the center for european policy analysis in washington d. c. and earlier i asked him, what has changed in the alliance? well, i think that's a good point. you guys actually let's consider where we were just 3 years ago in 2019 and hasn't come to the 1st a line says brain dead and lacking strategic purpose, not the same time. you may remember hesitant sure. it was evening threatening to, to withdraw from the lights. let's look at nicer today just 3 years on. we have a nice, a commitment to a huge increase in the number of hybrid and us forces. from 13000 in 2014 to 300000. today, i mean not just the new commitment and absolutely huge sledge there and then finally got to them and it has also pledged another $800000000.00 in aid for

ukraine. do we have a sense already of what that will look like? what's better to say on that score, but from the day to i've seen more than $30000000000.00 has already been $30000000000.00, is already being provided to military support to ukraine. since the, since the invasion began, it obviously still needs more typically, vehicles, most full truck assist, look at systems long range artillery launchers such as the engine 5 millimeter, how it's a system. and that's really too much the are to verify from motion forces in the don't bus region. but you know, there is an issue in terms of trending stockpiles in terms of munitions among some of the western countries who is applying ukraine right now. so that's something that nature really does need to grid going forward, because, you know, there's no point having a seem to 1000 strong hybrid in this response force. if you've only got enough munitions to potentially supply that force for master weeks. and in the ukraine's

case, you know, a matter of minutes and i'm now struggling to, to provide what's needed on the front line. but we have seen the g 7 pledge a commitment, you can work for as long as it takes. and so i expect to see a gradual increase in more modern sophisticated weaponry going to ukraine because it needs it right now. let's remember russian president vladimir persian also use the threat of nato expansion as a pretext for invading ukraine. now we're seeing a native expansion with finland and sweden joining the eastern plank of nato members. is it fair to say that this has backfired for but can absolutely, i mean, i was, i was going to assess them in spirit in the open question. i mean, yeah, i think if you believe in the mental principle, the free southern country being it to choose its own destiny and alliances, it wants to be possible for minutes. we have not taken not momentous decision, but they weren't close to doing that. you know, a year ago, 6 months ago today,

i mean, this putin has force this decision upon them. no countries that coerced into joining, that is quite the opposite. could use of them feel they need to join nature that compelled to join a so because of the threat they perceive from russia. so certainly future decision to invade ukraine when a particular smart one from the perspective of nature and watch. it's actually unified. the alliance strength and the alliance, and it's in large the lives elsewhere. i'm not going to see the formalization of changing attitudes toward china bite and spoke of the systemic challenges. china poses trade, rules based world. what are, what are the political consequences of this change? well, i would say 1st the, the, the nature strategic concept which has been published at this and that does leave the dollar and for continued constructive engagement trying, i think that's really important point to make. but i think, you know,

there can be no doubt that that, that the china has poses a threat to a say no, not as direct as, as russia. that's certainly fair to say. but we need to be clear about the range of political economic committee to tools that china has at its disposal, which it uses to project power and to create strategic dependencies around the world. like russia, china does use a combination of high bits, and so i do operations along with this information campaigns and very aggressive rhetoric to intimidate smaller nations and to it's well. and i say, i think nato as a defensive military alliance really needs to care about equip defensive capabilities across each of those separate domains. so that it doesn't just see the tire tree church, the likes of bush and john, one of the office of 37 regimes, of your very different values and very different level objectives. thank you very much for that analysis. we're going to leave it there. i draw hickman of the center for european policy analysis in washington

d. c. appreciate your time. thank you very much. and meanwhile, russia says it has withdrawn its forces from ukraine, snake island in the black sea. moscow calling it a good will just here to show that it is not blocking ukrainian grain exports. you might remember snake island became a symbol of resistance at the start of the war, when ukrainian soldiers rejected a russian warship to me to surrender. i asked our correspondent, nick connolly and keith, what the russian withdrawal from sneak island will mean for ukraine's green exports . unfortunately, i think it means pretty little right now. you still have the major issue of the mines, russian and ukranian c mines in those waters near odessa. i think it's very likely that any foreign trading ships, any grain transporting ships that are privately owned, me, willing to go to those ports if the situation stays, as it is still lots of russian military ships in that part of the black sea. lots of the fighting going on. and so i think for now it doesn't really make much

difference what it does make a difference to is russia's ambitions to capture more of ukraine's black, the coastline, a desa region, the mac alive region for that this small island near the delta danube was an important military staging point and ukraine has been focusing a whole lot of firepower increase, including some brand new as we understand american rocket launchers on attacking targets there. and it seems that russians just had to go to, they were being hit time and time again. so this russian talk, this being a gesture of goodwill, i think is pretty much meaningless. they said similar things when they were doing very badly around care of when they withdrew from the iran key of earlier on the war. and so i think this is just of kind of fig leaf and attempt to cover the fact that they weren't really feeling the heat from ukrainian military pressure there. and in the russian missile strikes are continuing across the country. he tells what the situation in that he chanced as like right now. so this city has been basically written off for weeks now, but it is still under ukrainian control, russia really honing in that city. having taken several minutes a couple of a week or so ago. and i think that the,

and the crucial thing is even though ukraine has some technical advantages using its drones, using intelligence that it gets from the u. s. it is just being relentlessly outgunned. russia just has a lot more in the way of a guns of shells to throw this city. so eventually it is gonna fall. and we took a look at how situations playing out and on, but how ukraine's weapon supplies are holding up. let's have a look. these american built rocket launchers, a key of new pride and joy, finally delivered after months of increasingly desperate requests and able to hit targets, 80 kilometers away with greater accuracy than any artillery ukraine or russia for that matter currently have in their arsenals. that means ukraine can now hit russian positions that fear of return. fire is only one problem. ukraine has 4 of them. for mostly though, this war is still being fought with tactics that haven't changed significantly

since world war 2. much of the equipment is more than 50 years old, except the russia has a lot more of it. and ukraine is starting to run out of ammunition. ukraine says the russians have 10. how it's, as for each of there's western intelligence sources, put the number somewhat lower, but agree key of is hopelessly outgunned or that these ukraine, unable to hope to do much more. the slow down the russian advance results. though a clear, this is what russian forces have done to separate the nets in its surroundings. ukraine estimates they were firing up to $50000.00 ground a day. this region used to be home to hundreds of thousands of people thought clear how many may remain, or what they might have stateful. ukrainian armies now left and present, zalinski sprouts, the city quote dead. this is what happens when just one shell comes down near an apartment block without even a direct hit. 3 months ago, russian army was just 10 kilometers away from the street. and keith,

no matter how well soviet era shall dreamed this simply not accurate enough, putting civilians at risk. what they have, let me be sure, the russians have much more artillery than we do. so it's as simple as that officer . obviously our army is facing losses that evening, but it's our cities that are really bearing the brunt additional green. they're being wiped out by russian artillery extra. if the west wants to help us, well, they should send us enough for us to gain the upper hand. or what if we just receive drips and drabs, the russian will be able to destroy the shipments. it won't be worth doing the voicemail of the month of delays and political wrangling, these german built houses, have finally made it to the front lines. all 7 of them. if that sounds insignificant, it's actually almost a 5th to what germany has available and ready to use. but it's a drop in the ocean when trying to fight back the russian invasion over 2000 kilometers front lines. the fear is that western arm supplies are only just enough to stop ukraine's army from collapsing enough to allow an orderly ukraine retreat rather than stopping the russian advance, let alone a major counter attack. no,

thank you so much for your reporting there. i also want to ask you about a prisoner swap that we saw yesterday at the largest since the invasion began. i mean, russia says it is still holding at least 6 hours, and other ukrainian soldiers are more of them likely to be freed. i think the defense potential for more in the way of exchanges, but here this is being read as an attempt to basically change the media a discourse to change the topic that attack on the crime and shook her shopping center with dozens of deaths that really has done rushes storytelling. it's narrative world wide. no good. and there was really no sense here that russia is trying to as quickly as possible. move the topic on because it's initial attempts to explain away that attack weren't really working. no one was really giving you much credibility. they been launching different and contradictory explanations on which really stuck. so there is that kind of reading of that here in ukraine. what's inching though is lots people that were released were from mario pal,

we're the defends, the as of style steel pants. but the most senior officers of that unit there, they are still in moscow and we expect to show trial there. so no sense that russia is giving up on that idea quite yet. appreciate you. clearing that up or did of you corresponded nick connelly in keith anything's let's bring you up to speed with some other world news headlines at this hour. chinese president, she jan paying is in hong kong for celebrations, marking the 25th anniversary of the former british colonies. handover it is, she's 1st trip outside mainland china. since the start of the pandemic. officials in tokyo are urging businesses and residents to save power in a record breaking heat wave. daytime highs are hovering at around 40 degrees celsius. the hot spell follows the earliest end to the rainy season. in decades, temperatures should drop next week and is rarely lawmakers have voted to dissolve

parliament. a move triggers the 5th election in less than 4 years. foreign minister yeah, your la p becomes the interim prime minister. he's taking over from natalie bennett, who says he will not run for re election in november. and in india, attentions are high after police arrested to muslims accused of murdering a hindu man. followers of the 2 religions have been clashing for months. public gatherings are now band and the internet walked in some areas ah, fire and fury on the streets in india, the sectarian murder of the hindu taylor by 2 muslim men in the northern state of rochester than has sparked outrage across the country. tensions are running high amid several mass public protests in the capital daily. right wing, hindu nationalist groups, plastic police, as they vented their anger over the killing me up. i got,

i don't want it. we're protesting the killing of can i allow one about someone who in spite of asking for police protection, was not given any hot way. this is a protest against a government law. this is the protest to get justice for canada. and this is a protest against the ever increasingly honey mindset in the country. they get the up in a gap, wasn't hang up, the demonstrations continued. can i allows cremation on wednesday, his killers were arrested by police after the film themselves carrying out the murder in his shop in the city of uday, poor. in a 2nd video that threatened the indian prime minister nor end ramadi. thereupon motive was that the murdered man had recently praised the controversial political figure, new per charmaine, a facebook post, a move for which he was arrested before been released on bail expanding. his bereaved wife told journalists, the facebook post was the sole reason for the killing. it was nothing else, just facebook. they killed him for such a smooth thing. oh sharma,

a well known political figure recently and sensed muslims in india and elsewhere by making derogatory remarks about the prophet mohammed resulting and protests from muslims. the ruling b. j. p. party suspended her as a result. officials and new diaper have rushed to quell the religious tensions before they get any worse. they have imposed a curfew amid clashes with protesters and of tried to stop the murder video from spreading further on line. but the killing has exposed the sectarian fault lines were drawn deep in a country run by a hindu nationalist party, but in which, around 170000000 citizens are muslims. meanwhile, cheering crowds in the philippines have witnessed the inauguration of a dictator, son as their precedence ferdinand marco's junior, also known as bung. marcos took the oath of office 36 years after his father's,

brutal dictatorship was ended by a people power revolt. the burden room were good marta course. junior. he floated 36 years after his father was forced into exile. ferdinand marcus junior is taking the philippines top job back. i think a month ago, the 64 year old who's better known as bung one. the countries presidential election by a landslide. now his promising to take the philippines forward and we will build but better by doing things in the light of the experiences that we of hug both good and bug. it doesn't matter. no looking back in anger or nostalgia in the road ahead. the immediate months will be rough, but i will walk that road with you. marcus supporters are ecstatic. he's going to continue the legacy of that. they are they to fight against. i drugs indicate given

dahlia, can manage everything. yes. like is doug market senior ruled the philippines from the mid 19 sixties to the mid eighty's, almost half of it on the marshal law. thousands of people were tortured, murdered, or disappeared. this wall of remembrance has the names of more than 300 people who fought against his dictatorship. this man, sister was one of those who disappeared under the former precedents rain. it's a nightmare saying the son of the dictator become the 17th breton of the philippines. returning my dinner was marcus junior, takes over from rodrigo to turret them, another controversial leader known for his bloody war against rocks and his attacks and critical media. his daughter, though, was served as marcus, his vice president,

creating a merger of 2 political dynasties. that is a partnership that some fear will further reduce their freedom, making their life in the philippines even harder. and did of the correspondent galle matters, attended the inauguration of ferdinand marcus i. in manila, thousands have come out to see the new presidents it's the very moment that thousands of supporters of ferdinand marcus junior here at the national museum in the heart of manila f. been waiting for 36 years after being ousted from the philippines. the marcos dynasty is back in the seat of power. fred and not marcus junior, now faces an uphill battle to keep his election promises. like cutting the price of rice in half as inflation in the country is rising sharply. you will also have to balance relations between 2 superpowers, the united states, on the one hand and china that has sent its vice president to the inauguration ceremony here in manila, on the other house. the most difficult task of all,

however, will be uniting a nation that is deeply split over its past the opponents of french marcus junior. but in particular, the victims of the martial law period under his father are deeply concerned that the son could bring back the dark days of the dictatorship period. that fred an marcos junior himself refers to provide as the golden era of the philippines. and if you talk to supporters of mark ross here at the national museum, that is exactly what they hope that marcos will bring back to the philippines. la. date of the of correspondent, georg matters reporting from manila. there are now the only remains of patrice lumber. the former prime minister of the democratic republic of congo have now arrived in cash asa, he plane carrying a coffin with a single tooth has landed in the capital. it was returned to family members during a ceremony in belgium earlier this month. lemme by became an anti colonial hero

after delivering a fiery speech against racism. when his country declared independence from belgium, he became congos, 1st post independence, prime minister before being overthrown, and later killed and leave it there for now coming up next is focus on europe. so stay tuned for that. if you want more news and analysis, you can of course, always find it on our website, d, w dot com. i'm clear richardson in berlin from the team. thanks much for watching. ah, with

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