off modern africa. this is ethan eggs o m d w. mm hm. mm ah ah, business dw news live from burden or a new commitment to helping you crying long term. we will work together to train ukraine's forces for the long haul. we work together to help integrate ukraine's capabilities and bolster its joint operations for the long haul and allies made in germany to discuss the way forward in military support for keith

. also coming up, the un says there's evidence of hundreds of thousands of ukrainians being forcibly to ported from areas of seized by russian troops. russia dismisses the challenges as make believe and waterborne diseases in pakistan is spreading among those affected by catastrophic flooding. more than 3000000 children ever at risk of illness and malnutrition. ah, i'm rebecca rich has welcome to the program, nato defense ministers and military officials from around the world. a meeting today in germany focused on the defense of ukraine at the ramstein air base u. s. secretary of defense lloyd austin renewed us commitment to the ukraine defense contact group. the pact aims to deliver critical military i to sustain ukrainian forces for the long term among the issues to be tackled at ramstein on

the training of ukrainian trips, and the challenges of producing and restocking ammunition for western weapons systems used by ukrainian troops. here's some of what austin had to say. and ladies and gentlemen, the face of the wars changing, and so is the mission of this contact group. we will work together to train ukraine's forces. for the long haul. we work together to help integrate ukraine's capabilities and bolster it's joint operations. for the long haul, we'll work together to upgrade our defense industrial basis to meet ukraine's requirements for the long haul. and we'll work together for the port for production and innovation to meet ukraine. self defense needs for the long haul and i standing by for us at ramstein abbeys is our cars bonnet. benjamin alvarez

grew by bench. we just heard lloyd austin ne, repeatedly stressing the need to support ukraine for the long whole. and what does that tell us about the how the war is progressing? that's right, and he also says as a war is progressing, we also as a war is evolving, we also have to evolve that the mission of this group that was founded here in april of this year needs to change as well. we saw a list of requirements by the ukrainian military by the ukrainian government. they're asking for more western weapons to move away from salvage weapons. he announced this new package of $675000000.00 us dollars. and we're expecting soon, a statement also by germany's defense minister for senior lamps to will then say, how germany can keep support in ukraine just to give you an example. nato a few days ago announced that they will give winter uniforms for the military. for keith's m soldiers, if for them to be better prepared to defend the country during the next winter months, and ukraine's prime minister development lensky still pushing for germany to supply

ukraine with modern let had to battle tanks, chancellor, olaf shells not so cain, how likely is it that germany will approve that ukraine's prime minister visited all our shoals last weekend and according to ukrainian side. he also said that they need this tags, which holds always a says, germany will not take a decision on its own, but talking to partners talking to allies if that's even possible. when this group met for the 1st time, 4 months ago, germany's defense minister said that they will sent this heavy weapons. this gephart aunt anto tanks is systems. i think that it's open if germany will deliver this earlier part tags that may be also ready to be deployed according to submit. a reported, of course, have not yet been confirmed yet by the military, so it's open. if germany will continue with this step, or will continue with smaller weapons and ammunition to help support ukraine, and that's a message of unity that they want to send. and that's why

a u. s. secretary offense, air lloyd austin, invited more than 50 members to show this sign of the wavering support, a for ukraine to defend itself against russia. are you quite rightly point out that that's the prime minister of ukraine not. and i'll present the lensky. i've been in the face all the looming energy crisis. how big is europe's willingness to send more weapons to ukraine? as you can see there, even some politicians who are looking at the problems with energy, he'll say that nordstrom to, for example, pipeline should be a resume to have the problem of energy. we have the problem of sanctions. some saying that we should find another way of talking to put in to talking to moscow not sending any more weapons, but the position and specially members of their own government from the pro business of to p part you have been to keep with been there and said that germany should be quicker, should not drag it's feed when it comes to sending heavy military equipment. the discussion is still ongoing. and one of the opening remarks today was also this

a lot to talk about when we look at the members who's currently taking place here in the meeting. we have sweden, we have fiddle and 2 countries that want to be part of the nato alliance to, to really, really broad numbers of partners that are meeting here and seeing how each and every country can support ukraine ramp. and thank you very much for that date. every correspondent benjamin alvarez karuba the u. n. says that hundreds of thousands of ukrainians have been forcibly taken to russian held territory or all the russian federation. the allegation appears to back up ukraine's long held claims of force deportations. he, when human rights officials say, there's also been a campaign to take unaccompanied ukrainian children across the border to be adopted in russia in may this year evacuated, residents, fleet, the besieged city of merrier pole. the united nations and the u. s. now say they have evidence that some evacuated from mary paul and other occupied areas,

as well as many people who stayed behind have been forcibly deported to russia or russian held territories. any united nations security council session official said hundreds of thousands of ukrainians have been detained, interrogated and forcibly deported. the experience is different for every one, depending on how threatening they are perceived to be toward russia's invasion, and some are allowed to remain in russian occupied parts of ukraine, summer, forcibly deported to russia, and some are sent to prison and some simply vanish. the u. s. says officials from the russian government, a, coordinating the deportations, but moscow dismissed the claims and said these ukrainians have voluntarily moved to russia. good lawyer. it's a new milestone on the disinformation campaign unleashed by ukraine and its western

bacchus against our country. that are human rights officials say there are also credible allegations of unaccompanied ukrainian children taken by force across the border. we are concerned that the rational authorities of the doctor does simplified procedure to grant ration citizenship to children without our until care, and that these children would be eligible for adoption by russian families. the un estimates thousands of children have been taken from their families or orphanages the deportations part of what one official called a campaign to change the very demographic of ukraine. i correspondingly calmly joins me now from cave. make more than one and a half 1000000 people as a huge amount of people. how does the us ambassador to the you and come to that figure? well, the figures for the number of ukrainians currently in russia come from the russian government to say that these people are voluntarily in russia. but for the most

part, all the statistics concerning ukraine, refugees right now are very, very provisional. the same goes for the number of ukrainians who have left in the western direction for the e. u. we understand about some 5000000 people left the country that's even small, dwarfed by the number that have been displaced within the country. have moved within ukraine to the was the western central regions. but many of the ship of now returned back to ukraine, and there's no real kind of reliable statistics for that. but it is clear that for lots of regions of ukraine, eastern ukraine, where lot of the worst fighting was russia, was basically the only way out there was no safe route to ukraine control territory . so large numbers, people have to leave these very big cities, like marable than an hour, basically ghost towns, even if the fighting there has largely stopped, they are busy, no, not place where people can live in any kind of comfort with security. the infrastructure is simply destroyed as those people aren't in a place to come back. and the un accuses rush of deporting them to remote regions in rush as far as what, what the strategy they have

a do. thank well the ukraine position is of see that this is about trying to get these people as far away as possible from ukraine to make their return as difficult as are just as expensive as possible. we have seen cases where people with resources, with relatives, with money, happy able to get out of russia to travel back to ukraine via neighboring countries like estonia or georgia. but for lots of people who say that their phones, their passports and their results have been taken away from them. that's pretty much impossible. and there's also the suggestion here in ukraine, this part of some criminal stretches to try and re populate kind of emptying regions of russia, the far north, far east of russia. but this is definitely being seen here as an attempt to basically bleed ukraine dry. enter rob this country of its population, even for the time once this war is over. as you mentioned, and as we heard in the report, moscow denies their claims that ukraine's have been forcibly moved. and in fact, it had been voluntarily moved to russia. how credible is that?

i think one thing is very clear that they made no efforts to make it easy for people to leave a russian occupied areas of ukraine. fort ukraine control territory. you remember in previous months, endless negotiations over corridors, people being killed while trying to get out basically having to get in a car at their own risk and risk being shelled while trying to leave for ukrainian control church. that definitely the case. and we've had reports of people being taken to hospitals and the schools in other places kept their check for their links to ukrainian army. the korean government laura pressure being put on people. so definitely is a sense that the russians are very king to put a lot of pressure on people and to make them kind of cut off their links to ukraine . it's government institutions. all right, now thanks very much that update nick con late for us in cave. on to pakistan now we're millions of people who've been affected by record breaking floods are now confronting the threat of waterborne diseases. tens of thousands have fallen ill

after drinking contaminated flood water. dr. say field hospitals have been trading thousands of people, daily fed, diarrhea, malaria, and other sicknesses. 3 year old archer has been feverish for days. ever since the floods badly damaged his family home. and they've had to sleep out in the open. he didn't get any medical treatment at the start, because the family couldn't afford to go to the doctor burial book ira that my son fell ill a few days ago. but i didn't have the money to bring him here, but i found it. god, the doctor says he's got malaria that the, he's getting a bit better with the debit. when i die that are going, i am, i recorded, i read on alive for faith. either the stagnant water means mosquitoes couldn't quickly spread malaria. but medical facilities are basic in this remote area of the southern sinned province. at each kumar runs

a small practice and is always busy. most of his patients can't afford to pay some damn more of that. we can't really treat patients for free to live, but we do it anyway. but they still have to pay for the medicine. doesn't it? okay, but there's a lot of disease start to have. most of the children often have several illnesses at once because they're drinking contaminated water, but fewer to like and the money vinegar. it's not just medical treatment, which is lacking. food is also in short supply, most of these market traders are farmers whose fields are flooded. they also have to deal with the extreme heat. i say, yankee lay on my house and the harvest have been wiped out yet. i said there's no shelter from the heat in the water in the fields is still waste deep. they did a vine, my business will go bust and she hadn't kikhia. it hasn't rained in this region for about 10 days. but the water cannot run off because the ground is saturated.

scientists fear the harvests in the next 2 years will fail. it jazz ali and his family are in a desperate situation. their house is uninhabitable. parts of the roof has collapsed and they live in fear of the next rain, full in either morocco, my da, the government has to help us. our home has been destroyed or rocky. the children are sick and we have no work. i'm really worried about, you know, my unity login as our now don't additional is there's no food and the family is having to survive on a few cups of tea a day that will not sustain them for long. you watching database news. as a reminder of the top story, we're following. foy, u. s. secretary of defense, lloyd often has underlined the long term commitment of ukraine's allies to

supported against russia. speaking at a meeting of the ukraine defense contact group, austin said that western military backing to ukraine was paying off on the battlefield to contact growth made up of defense ministers and senior military figures is maintained in germany. attendees headlines this hour. thanks for watching up next business news with my colleague christy flats, and i'm rebecca written from 8th and the entire team here in bell. and thanks for your company. ah ah ah. the landscape. a reflection of a turbulent history. the cities, the mosaic of different people.