ah ah ah, it's d w. use knife from berlin, members of britain's royal family, travel to bow moral to be at the quaint side. buckingham palace say the 96 year old monarch is under medical supervision. in a rare public statement, they said doctors are concerned for her health also on the program, a renewed commitment to helping ukraine in the long term. we will work together to train ukraine's force rush for the long haul. i made in germany to discuss the way

forward in military support for kate asked me where 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 with and the surveillance scandal brewing in europe some, some say, could rival the watergate, wiretapping, european parliament begins hearing evidence on the use and abuse of spyware against political opponents. ah, i'm rebecca writ has welcome to the program. we began with some breaking news just coming in in the last hour or so. buckingham palace says britain's queen elizabeth is under medical supervision after her doctor's reported, quote, concern for her health. this and says the queen is in

a comfortable stay told though buckingham palace rarely comments on her health. the exact concerns have not been disclosed. prince charles as the air to the throne is reported to be with the queen, and other members of the royal family are traveling to her estate in scotland on its cross over straight to london. now dw, big at mass is standing by big. what more can you tell us? it's really a developing situation. rebecca. we have the official statement that the queen is not well and as you say, that is quite unusual. i have not had the palace commenting much on the queen's health and never with any said anything so serious. so we know that the queen has not been in great health of late, many of her engagements that she was always during a whole lifetime. so eager to attend in person and that she was so dutifully attended many of days have lately been virtual. so she wasn't really able to go places very much. and this trust, the prime minister,

was meeting the queen only 2 days ago. and usually that would happen in buckingham palace, but there this trust and also the outgoing prime minister boys johnson. they had to travel up to scotland to meet the queen because she had as it was then sad mobility issues. so we don't really know what the problem is and in what way her situation has deteriorated, but something must have happened because otherwise the children and grandchildren now it's been reported that also harry and meghan are under way to scotland. otherwise, all this family wouldn't travel up to see the queen. yes, certainly. and that statement in phrases such as medical supervision cause for concern. it certainly does sound very serious. right. and different to what they, whether that they don't normally comment on her health, as you say, that's right. when she contracted covey, there was already an, a bit of

a shock going through the country. and people were waiting their breath and hoping that she would recover. that was just this one statement that she had had covered, but that she was doing fairly well. and then she has recovered from that from all we know, but not very many public appearances by heart. she was surprise in the opening of the elizabeth line. it's a big new project in london that was obviously named after her. so that was delighting many of british people that she was there, but nobody had been expecting that that happened this summer. so very recently she has had yeah, very loki engagements and, and mostly virtual at now. as you mentioned, we know that the queen's health hasn't been great of late. but you, as you also mentioned, we saw photos of her just on tuesday, accepting the resignation of outgoing prime minister barak johnson, as well as a point in the new prime minister list trust. so she still has been managing to

carry out some official duties in the last few days. yes, very much so and these pictures that i have emerged from these meetings show her smiling and welcoming alice truss as the new prime minister. and also she was able to meet boris johnson. so we, we know that above anything, she's known for her sense of duty and she would have most likely i'd like to go to buckingham palace and meet those outgoing and incoming prime ministers there. but it was impossible, but it really speaks for this sense that she has to stick it through that she even with her ongoing issues, she was on the scene on a walking split stick that she managed to to meet these 2 prime ministers and that she is really determined teared to she was really determined to continue working as much as you could. i beg it, thank you very much date of his big mouth in london with

me in the studio state of the reporter alex forest. why think, alex, we just heard from being there, but just for people to joining us and just so that we have everything to give it summarized for us. what we know so far? well, we know that the queen who has been queen for 70 years, she rose to the throne in 1952. we know that she is on well, so on. well, that buckingham palace has issued a statement about that. saying that her doctors are concerned for her health at the moment, but we don't have any more detail about the situation of her health. what we do know is that members of her family, some are already at, are moral that in the north of scotland, where the queen currently is summer, with a for example, prince charles and his wife camilla and others are traveling there. so for example, prince edward, prince andrew to have her sons travelling there and also prince william. and we

also hear that prince harry and his wife megan also trying to borrow. so that in itself says that this is a very serious situation. by the fact that members of the family on gathering in the north of scotland to be by her bedside. and also the buckingham palace has made this statement, saying that doctors have said they are very concerned about her health. we do also know, of course, that the queen has had serious mobility problems in the past couple of years. at least that has been said. that means that we have not seen her as much in public as we have done in the past. but she has still very much trying to carry out her public duties, which is what big mass was saying that you know, that sense of duty now, which i think has been so key to a queen, elizabeth, a rule over the 70 years that she has always tried to carry out her sense of duty and nothing can stop her from doing that, not even when her own husband, prince philip, died last year. she carried on app and we saw on tuesday. of course,

you know, she can't have been feeling all that well either and yet she did, you know, want to as big it said it was very important to her that she carry out the duties of accepting the resignation of forest johnson and then a pointing list trust talk is through some of the immediate reactions that this news is triggering. well, we already know that list trust who is the new prime minister has said that she is very worried and we know that other politicians have from the same in the u. k. we know that the archbishop of canterbury, on who is, he's not their head of the church of england because that's actually the queen. but he has also said that he is praying, or that the whole church of england is praying for the queen. and there are also messages coming in from across the world. so i think people are very, very worried. i mean, you have to understand that the queen is not just the queen of the united kingdom. she's also the age of 14, all the countries, including australia,

including canada and 12 others. so this is a very, very important moment for the world and for many countries as well. and, and as i said, you know, she has been queen for 70 years. she celebrated her platinum jubilee earlier this year. it is a milestone. she's 96 years old. she has been taking a step back over the past year or 2, quite understand why to understandably her own some prince charles, for example, was at the state opening of parliament this year that the pitch we have in the war behind us that the queen, at the state opening of parliament in london. so in the house of lords where she wasn't there this year, prince charles had to do it. so he has already been stepping up to take on some of the roles that she would have done in previous times as has her grandson, prince williams. so you know, everybody has been trying to do their bit back, her up as much as possible. but as we keep saying,

the queen has always tried to do, has out her sense of duty carry on, particularly this week. it's been a massive week in british politics saying good bye to boris johnson, who i think was her 15th prime minister and welcoming. i think has 16th prime minister list trust, but yesterday she was supposed to have a meeting with very senior miss ministers, the so called privy council that was cancelled. so i think that was an immediate warning of on perhaps the queen is not particularly well at the moment because again, that's not something that she likes to do. and then this announcement today from buckingham palace that doctors are concerned for her health and also the fact that she was in, she's in bell moral and not in buckingham palace haps that says something else, because she would of course, always been buckingham palace to welcome a new prime minister on the last 15 or so prime minister, but she was unable on it appears to get back to london. so she stayed in the north

of scotland and that is her summer residence, but it is unprecedented that she would be up there. so again, that was another indication on such a big political week in the united kingdom that the queen was up in the north of scotland and not down in london. so that she could welcome in the new prime minister list ross or alex will of course be following this story throughout the evening on the coming days. thanks very much for that update. alex forest whiting, nato defense ministers and military officials from around the world. a meeting today in germany focused on the defensive ukraine, at the ramstein, ebay, you. as the secretary of defense, lloyd austin renewed us commitment to the ukraine defense contact group. the pac times to deliver critical military aid to sustained ukrainian forces for the long term. among the issues to be tackled at ramstein, the training of ukrainian troops and the challenges of producing and re stocking

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 bases to meet ukraine's requirements for the long haul. and we'll work together for their port for production and innovation to meet ukraine self defense needs for the long haul. as we just heard there, lloyd austin repeatedly stressing the need to support you, crime for the long haul. so what does that say about where the war is headed? that's the question i put earlier to our correspondent benjamin alvarez group at

ranch ramstein air base. 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 we have this big air package there was again announced by the us. well, 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. 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 are still ongoing. we are 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 not so. kane, 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 it christine lamb bush with her dutch counterpart. but they spoke about what germany can do going into d mining. so helping ukrainian forces d mine broad areas in the ukraine. she was asked on this heavy artillery on leo part time had half 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 sent. but it's saying that it

will not take this decision alone. and it will coordinated with allison, with france at a sentence. it doesn't chantelle on of shelters, repeated full several times where i've been thanks very much for that date of the correspondent benjamin alvarez grava. meanwhile, the united states 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. un 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, flea, the besieged city of merrier pole. the u. s. now says it has evidence that some evacuated from mario pole and other occupied areas, as well as many people who stayed behind, have been forcibly deported to russia or russian held territories in the united

nations security council session. the u. s. ambassador to the u. n. said up to 1600000 ukrainians have been detained, interrogated and forcibly deported. the experience is different for every one, 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, federal un 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 parental care. and that these children would be eligible for adoption i, russian families. the u. s. estimates. thousands of children have been taken from their families or orphanages. the deportations part of what some western diplomats call a campaign to change the very demographic of ukraine. and get you up to speed on some of the stories making news this hour. south korean president units of y'all has declared special disaster zones in 2 of the cities was affected by a powerful typhoon. the designation makes the areas eligible for tax breaks and government subsidies typhoon in them, nor has killed 10 people and caused widespread damage since it struck on tuesday. 1000 have taken to the streets in haiti's capital and other cities to demand better living conditions. fakeholing on prime minister ariel on re to resign, following a spike in consumer prices. a severe fuel shortage. the rise in gang related

violent grace's government has set up an inquiry into a phone hacking scandal that's rocked the conservative government, an opposition party later and a number of journalists had alleged the government attempted to hack their funds. now, a european parliament committee is looking into the abuse of spyware by other a, you government on political opponents, the use of the pegasus software, not to just one example rather was revealed last year. but as terry schultz found the inquiries on covering some questionable practices, 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, the european parliament set up an investigative committee to dig deeper. you parliamentarians. so v 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 a 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 politician, is muted other than in the european parliament where multiple members have been targeted. i was expecting quite some outcry about what happened. but what do we have? the commission is here with neither the commissioner tech nor the commissioner in charge. the council, they don't even bother showing up for intervals, 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 2 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. earlier i spoke to date of res terry. she'll to

file that report. i also which a you government's have been found to be using the spy software and who they was fine 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 happened 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 piece. so as people realize what a huge scandal it is, what a huge problem it is. and the entire european parliament plenary may actually address this next week. in strasburg, bryant, terry, thank you. certainly a story to watch t w's. terry shop for us in brussels are now to some good news from the gaza strip in the palestinian territories for years. its beaches have been off limits for swimming because of pollution. now internationally funded sewage treatment facilities have changed all that. and as d w correspondent tanya kramer reports, it's opened up a whole new world for gardens who love the water. the beating garza city is one of the favorite places for gardens to relax in this isolated territory. in recent years, life good reach on my la has often called and people to stay out of the sea because

of severe pollution. but now most areas i safe enough to swim again. and again, the vehicle has the low baja. we always go to the beach for fun or 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 logging out of the wall with 0. this with another. untreated sewage water used to flow directly into the sea. but now garza 3 internationally found that sewage treatment plans have stepped up operations. partly because the electricity supply is a bit more reliable. these plans tree tens of millions of cubic meters of sewage every day. it's reduced see 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 rafa. 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 restricts to movement of people and goods such as cement or spare parts in and out of the hamas through 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 were 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 hitler and the law is so is beautiful. the weather is nice. this fema jadelyn, we pamper ourselves when we come to the sea. so there's, there's no sewage there happen either. the water is clean and uncluttered being misled at them. while the political situation in the isolated territory remains unpredictable. residents in garza hope their precious speech and see will continue to recover a win win for people here and for nature. in watching daily news, as a reminder of the top story, we're following foyer. buckingham palace says britain's queen elizabeth is under medical supervision at her home in scotland in a re a public statement. the palace is doctor's concern for the 96 year old monarch's health. prince charles is reported to be with the queen now and other members of

the royal family are traveling to his side. that's news update is out of state you now for data, but use asia. i'm rebecca, written for me and the entire team here in the news room in berlin. thanks very much for watching. a tooth. ah, with

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