ah ah ah ah, this is dw knees live from berlin, a renewed commitment to helping you crime in the long term. we will work together to train ukraine's force ish. for the long haul, we work together to help get great ukraine's capabilities and bolster gives joint operations for the long haul west and allies made in germany to discuss the way

forwarded military support for keith. also coming up, the u. s. says it has evidence that up to 1600000 ukrainians may have been forcibly deported from areas seized by russian troops. russia dismisses the charges as make believe and waterborne diseases in pakistan is spreading among those affected by catastrophic flooding. more than 3000000 children are at risk of illness and malnutrition. ah, i'm rebecca rate is welcome to the program, nato defense ministers and military officials from around the world. a meeting today in germany focused on the defense, a view crime at ramstein, ebay, usa khatri as defense, lloyd austin renewed us commitment to the ukraine defense contact group. the pact aims to deliver critical military aid to sustain training forces for the long term

among the issues to be tackled at ramstein and the training of ukrainian troops and the challenges of producing and restocking ammunition for western weapons systems used by ukrainian forces. he is 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 its 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. a standing my for us at ramstein, ebay says i correspondent benjamin alvarez group at ben. we hey,

he had lloyd austin, they repeatedly stressing the need to support you, crime for the long haul. and what does that tell us about how the war is progressing? what it's showing us is that the need to change the strategy. they say that's also what austin said during his opening remarks as a war evolves this, we need to evolve as well. the mission of this group that was created here in april, so a few months ago is to have a joint support for ukraine to coordinate. the military held that they will give will have this big air package there was, again, announced by the u. s. will to so a list of what ukraine is demanding of more heavy artillery to go away from soviet weapons to more western weapons. and to see if this brought coalition that wants to show him that they are still supporting ukraine and they're still preparing ukraine, especially for the winter months. as for example, nato has announced that it will help with winter equipment for the soldiers, for ukrainian soldiers. the conversations hostile and going were expecting

a press conference to hear on what they will do to keep supporting ukraine. it defending itself against against russia and ukraine, prime minister, just the latest to call on germany to supply ukraine with modern leopard. 2 battle tanks, chancellor shouts and not so cain, how likely is it? do you think that germany will approve that and not just that he's not keen defense minister christina lambert is also not keen. they just gave a small press statement in cassim lambert with her dutch counterpart, but they spoke about what germany can do going into demining. so helping ukrainian forces d mine broad areas in the ukraine. she was asked on this heavy artillery on leo partners that have been also in debates for several weeks now. let's remember that it was a pretty long turn and it was exactly here. at this abbey's in germany were m. germany's defense minister lambert announced the 1st sending of heavy artillery but

for now there are no discussions on if that could be any broader, heavy artillery like moderate for example, this and so tank is systems that germany could also send, but it's saying that it will not take this decision alone, and it will coordinated with allison, with france at a sentence. it demonstrates a lot of choices, repeated full several times where i've been, thanks very much for that date of the correspondent benjamin alvarez. grava u. s. secretary of state antony blinkin has made an unannounced visit to cave to meet with senior ukrainian officials. the trip comes as washington approved $2000000000.00 and military aid for ukraine and its neighbors facing the threat of russian aggression. as new assistant assistance as to the 675000000 dollar package for ukraine, the defense secretary austin announced earlier the u. s. says it has evidence that up to 1600000 ukrainians have been forcibly taken to russian held territory. all the russian federation, the allegation appears to back up ukraine's long held claims of force deportations

. it when human rights officials say there's also been a campaign to take unaccompanied ukrainian children across the board to be adopted in russia. in may this year evacuated resident's 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 everyone, depending on how threatening may are perceived to be toward rushes 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 it's 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 have adopted a 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. earlier i spoke to david is nick connelly, im cave and asked him how the u. s. rate that figure of $1600000.00. 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've left in the western direction for the you. we understand about some 5000000 people left the country. that's even small. the dwarf 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 bakshi crane. 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 a lot of the worst fighting was russia, was basically the only way out there was no safe route to ukraine control territory . so a lot of times people have how 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 then 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, try to 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 has been forcibly moved. and in fact, it had been voluntarily moved to russia. how credible is that? i think wandering is very clear that they made no efforts to make it easy for people to leave a russian occupied areas of ukraine for 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, you know, being shelled while trying to leave for ukrainian control church. that definitely the case. and we've had reports of people being a taken to hospitals and the schools and other places kept their check for their links to ukrainian army. the current government, lot of pressure being put on people's there definitely is a sense that the russians are very keen to put more pressure on people and to make

them kind of cut off their links to ukraine. it's government institutions right now . thanks very much that update nick con late for us in cave on to pakistan now where millions of people have been affected by record breaking floods are now confronting the threat of waterborne diseases. tens of thousands of falling ill after drinking contaminated flood water, doctor se field hospitals have been trading thousands of people daily for 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 by the 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. i got, the doctor says he's got malaria. i know that. yeah, he's getting a bit better when i go either i can, i am i recorded. i wrote down

a larger, safely than the stagnant water means mosquitoes couldn't quickly spread malaria, but medical facilities are basic in this remote area of the southern sinned province. a judge kumar runs a small practice and is always busy. most of his patients can't afford to pay some damn more of that, but we can't really treat patients for free as a limb, but we do it anyway. but they still have to pay for the medicine a but there's a lot of disease starts out. most of the children often have several illnesses at once because they're drinking contaminated water, but you, it'll die again with 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

said you're going to lay on my house and the harvest have been wiped out yet. i said there is no shelter from the heat in the water and the fields are still waist deep. they did a vine, my business will go bust and she hadn't to hear 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. part of the roof has collapsed and they live in fear of the next rainfall. in either morocco meant that the government has to help us. our home has been destroyed or rocky, the children are sick and i but, and we have no work. i'm really worried about the way no money to login as our now to finish on if 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. now shane ambassador journalist, based in pakistan's capital islamabad, welcome at the devastating mountain rains. they started in june, it's been months now and thousands and thousands of flood victims are still waiting for aid food, food, and shelter. it has the emergency response. just been too slow. honestly, given the sheer scale of the disaster in any situation like this response is never fast enough, but especially given the situation because there's so many areas where of which are inaccessible than many and use organizations that are trying also to help and have gotten a lot of funds, a lot of food, lot of items that are needed by families, but they're unable to get there unless they are fed up or they get the help of the

armed forces of bach, his son. so could it be faster force it could be, but the sheer scale of the desert disaster is just too huge in the a being distributed equally among those who need it. well, it's not well sickly, being equally distributed because like i said, this just been some areas i was just speaking a little while ago short while ago to somebody who was on the ground. that even the media hasn't been able to reach a lot of the places. so the fact that there are some places where we don't even know the, the level of disaster that they're facing is because of the it because of accessibility, the unable to get there. so a lot of things where it comes to distribution of ead food, frankly speaking, it's being sent or given in those places where they have access of by it, by the armed forces, whether it's military, whether it's neighbor, but that's currently the situation at no shame. what about the aftermath is

pakistan in a position to take on the giant rebuilding effort that will be needed once the waters have receded? oh no, because the box on is also all dollar denominated debt, global, and right now, all people who are affected by the floods i just worried and just trying to make ends meet in a way, not even that they just trying to find any dry ground going on with their families . so when the love to see that is the time when you need the most help to rebuild, can do it alone. possibly not because we also have a huge debt to be paid. and i think that's where also conversations are coming about where it comes the global north and what is what, what can be done. and the irony is being brought up that people who have leased contributed to this disaster are the ones who are being affected. the mom and dad

are machine. thank you. officer. leave their journalists, notion of us reporting from islam about greece's government has sent up an inquiry into a phone hacking scandal. that's rocks. the conservative government, an opposition party, later, and a number of journalists had alleged the government attempted to hack their phones. now a european parliament committee is hearing evidence, only abuse of spyware by other a, you government on political opponents. the use of the pegasus software, just one example was revealed last year. but as terry schultz found out the inquiry is uncovering more examples of questionable hacking. there's a scandal unfolding in europe that some say will make water gates wiretapping. look tame by comparison, is murky, is ugly. it's shady european union. governments are alleged to have been spying on their own citizens, opposition, politicians, journalists,

e lawmakers to blackmail them, manipulate them, intimidate them. the surveillance was uncovered more than a year ago by a consortium of journalists and n g o's, called the pegasus project for european parliament set up an investigative committee to dig deeper. you parliamentarians. so the intervals says what they're finding is frightening. there is a kind of market where semi under world figures, selling this stuff are meeting people, you know, are government representatives or people who have been asked by the government. you know, it's the greek government admits hacking the phones of a journalist and a member of the european parliament saying it may have been wrong, but it was legal. that's one of the big problems for those who want to expose and eliminate such practices. some of the people whose approval would be needed to change the laws are the ones making use of the surveillance. even when it was found at the youth, justice commissioner and staff were targeted by the spyware. the commission declined to investigate,

saying it's up to individual government. there have been public protests against the surveillance in some countries such as hungary, where journalist phones were hacked. but the outrage among you latisha's is muted. other than in the european parliament where multiple members have been targeted, i was expecting quite some outside about what happened. but what do we have? the commission is here with neither the commissioner tact nor the commissioner in charge the council. they don't even bother sewing up into build, says the european police agency euro poor was not enthusiastic about her recommendation to launch an investigation. so she intends to follow up with a formal request. it's squarely within their mandate. it is a cross border. they that they do have the powers to intervene even when it concerns only one member state, but it has an impact on the common interest of european union. so they have to act and they're not. intervals says she knows exposing excesses won't stop the use of

surveillance software, but she hopes to curb it's abuse as cross to terry. she'll to found that report for his terry. ok, we heard about greece. there are the obvious stand out case there, but which other governments have been found to be using the spy software and who if they've been spying on. well rebecca, this is so murky as sophie intervals calls it, that you can't even really speak about just governments using this software. it's more accurate to talk about countries where it's been documented as being used. and in addition to greece, that's been documented in hungary, in spain, in poland. but one of the interesting things is that when these e, lawmakers on this committee spoke to the israeli company that makes just one example of this spyware, pegasus. they were told that there are 22 active contracts in the european union in 12 countries. so clearly there's a lot more to come on on this story on this expo say definitely, but they're claiming that it's all been done legally. how. how could this be done

legally? well, the problem for a lot of these people who want to curve this, this type of behavior, is that you have to make surveillance, legal. in certain cases, you can't take this tool away from law enforcement, for example. what's been shocking about the investigation even so far is that political administrations are getting their hands on it sometimes saying, well we didn't buy it, we just happen to benefit from it. and so you've really got to try to try to curb the instances in which it can be used. and this is something that, that european parliamentarians are saying they're saying we know we cannot make this behavior illegal, but it has to be controlled. there have to be a limit on the excesses on the ways that people who would use it just for personal benefit. can i get their hands on it? and there was a hearing today in the parliament. what came out of that? and will there be any consequences yet? today the hearing was focused on greece, on some of those cases that we've been talking about. cases of, of hacking the phones of journalists, even

a member of the european parliament. and next week the committee will focus on poland and, and talk to some of the same people who feel that, that their phones have been compromised by government entities, by official entities. and it's interesting that this is now starting to pick up pace. so as people realize what a huge scandal it is, what a huge problem it is. and the entire european parliament's plenary may actually address this next week in strasburg. right, terry, thank you. certainly a story to watch t w's, terry shop for us in brussels. now to some good news from the gaza strip in the palestinian territories for years they had beaches have been off limits for swimming because of pollution. now internationally funded syrup treatment facilities have changed all that. and as dw correspondent tenure kramer reports, it's opened up a whole new world for gardens who love the water. the beating goes, the city is one of the favorite places for gardens to relax in this isolated

territory. in recent years, life good weed shamela has often called and people to stay out of the sea because of severe pollution. but now most areas are safe enough to swim again and a couple of real dollars the load baja. we always go to the beach for fun while the hollow, because economic conditions for people in the gaza strip are so tough and they have nowhere else to go for recreation. but the c army, because the water is clean, the number of vacation is, has risen, and so has the number of those are swim, lobbied on the wall of the z, this with another untreated sewage water used to flow directly into the sea. but now garza 3 internationally founded sewage treatment plans have stepped up operations, partly because the electricity supply is a bit more reliable. these plans treat tens of millions of cubic meters of sewage every day. it reduce c pollution to its lowest level in years,

at least in some areas 70 to 80 percent or the beach is liam. ok. we are dreaming now to have a mother, a treatment facility for alpha. that means then the holy it treatment will be and her are very advanced technology building. the treatment plans also took a long time israel tightly restricted to movement of people and goods such as cement or spare parts in and out of the hamas were territory across the highly restricted border israeli environmentalists from a co peace, an organization that brings israeli palestinian and jordanian ecologists together have long pushed israeli authorities to allow building dose treatment plans. we're able to show that the water security that the in that the health, the public health and environment security of both peoples is at risk. if the

storage on one side is not being treated for these sisters from garza city, a day at the beach is a welcome respite. from there every day. troubles with hello and the law is so is beautiful. the weather is nice to see mcgary what we pamper ourselves when we come to the sea. so there's, there's no sewage there. if i put a guy in the water as clean and uncluttered being misled at the law. while the political situation in the isolated territory remains unpredictable, residence in garza hope their precious speech and see will continue to recover a win win for people here and for nature. you're watching data really do use his a reminder of the top story. we're following foyer, u. s. secretary of defense, lloyd often has underlined the long term commitment of ukraine's allies to support

it against russia. speaking at a meeting of the ukraine defense contact group, austin said that western military backing for ukraine was paying off on the battlefield. the contact group made off of defense ministers and senior military figures is meeting in germany and water born diseases, the threatening millions of people in flood have pakistan, doctor se, field hospitals. the tracing thousands of people daily had diarrhea, malaria, and other ailments. again, you can always get date of any news on the go, just download our app from google play or from the apple app stoled. that'll give you access to all the latest news from around the world as well as push notifications for any breaking youth to headlines. this out thanks very much for watching. stay tuned now for focus on europe with a report on escaping from afghanistan to

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