ah ah ah ah, business dw news live from berlin, russia illegally. annex says large parts of ukraine, president vladimir putin signs decrees to recognize for ukrainian regions as russian territory and vows to defend them with all available means. western leaders reject the land, grab and pledge never to recognize. ah,

the sham referendums were angela yang to the nato secretary general the install some back giving up press conference left his name in total violation of international law. this land grab is illegal and illegitimate nato allies do not and will not recognize any of this territory. as part of russia, we call an old state to reject russia else. blatant attempts, art, territorial conquest. these lands are ukraine. still. net disc is ukraine. your homes is ukraine, had a song,

is ukraine. so put each shaw is ukraine, just like crummy yog is ukraine. this is the 2nd time. russia has taken ukraine. info tore it by force, but it does not change the nature of the conflict. this remains a rush, us brutal war of aggression against ukraine, and it does not change our commitment to support ukraine. nate thought is not part due to the conflict, but we provide support to crane. swords can uphold its right for self defense and shrine in the you and charter. ours is a defensive alliance with don united, undetermined, to defend and protect every nato ally and every inch of allied territory.

this is a pivotal moment. puritan has mobilized hundreds of thousands of more truce, engaged in irresponsible newkirk saber rattling and now illegally annexed more ukrainian territory. together, this represents the most serious escalation, since the thought of the war. no, no. this shows strength. it shows weakness. it is an admission that the war is not going to plan. and the tooth in has utterly failed. in this strategic objectives. person bears full responsibility for his ward. it is his responsibility to end it. to end the imminence

suffering of the brave ukrainian people to and the energy and food crisis that these affect thing so many around the world. if russia stops, why thing, there will be peace. if you crane stops, why thing, it will cease to exist as the independent sovereign nation in europe. nato reaffirms our unwavering support for ukraine's in the pens 70 and to the total integrity. we remain resolute in providing support ukraine as it continues to defend itself against russia's aggression, for as long as it takes and without them today to take your questions. and we'll have time for just a couple of questions. we'll start with the news agency of ukraine. thank you for the national usage of her grand ms. ross could go on. we any grain mckibbin old

doll to will prevail and deliberate, deleterious res. but a few hours ago, you can leadership shows us of a possible way out of these bloody war and officially applied to nato membership. my question is nate already to consider that kind of obligations? and the 2nd part of the question, is it possible to consider this beatty procedure for that kind of fall off membership? i like it was done for sweden and finland. thank you so much. every democracy in europe, asada to apply for nato membership and ne dollars respect that arrived. and we have state that again, again, that nate, those door remains open and we'll then we'll stick to that over the and austin years and $9.00 when the met at the nato summit in madrid. estates is also very clear that we support ukraine's rights at to choose if on

its own path to decide what kind of security arrangements he wants to be a part of that. then a decision on membership, of course, has to be taken by all 3rd allies and we take these decisions by consensus. our focus now is on providing immediate support to ukraine and to help ukraine defend itself against the, the russian, brutal innovation. and then a, that's the main focus on the main effort of nato allies, asi as beach associated press is secretary general. the war seems to have taken on a new dimension to day with both president zalinski and president putin taking fairly big steps. i wonder now that president putin's annex these parts of ukraine . he's threatened to use nuclear weapons as well, which would you call for com?

would you, would you advise presence lensky to perhaps stay away from the region? how would nato deal with this as well, from the outside, colon preston to tin turn the wharf. he is responsible for starting the war on he has the responsibility to end the war. nicole, so a for russia stops fight thing. there will be peace. if i said and ski and the ukrainians still fighting ukraine will cease to exist us in the plantation. so not speaking about in a way to equals, we have an aggressor, a russia, and we have a country which is a big thing over aggression ukraine. and that's also the reason why we are so clearly supporting ukraine. we're the legal annexations. all of a over ukraine in territory doesn't change the nature of this war is in

as though. well it does it. even though korea, you mean that i see is a villa, so any man luke identity theft, that doesn't actually did it, and there might be a technical problem there. a very strange coincidence to we're just listening to the nato chief a mr. stolen back who is now back. and i wonder whether we can go back to his we are the combination of on the mobilization in russia, combined with her reckless dangerous nuclear rhetoric. and then today's illegal annexation or attempt to annex a parts over ukraine together. and this is the most studious escalation of the conflict. since the thought and the aim all pressed them put in is to deter us from support the ukraine. but he will not succeed in that. that message from the dallas of are partners is that we will continue to support tonight to state just announced

to day more support and eyes for goals with all those leaders sold at also a few days and the, and they put this and they all have the same as such, we need to stand united, we need to provide support and to, to ukraine, because this is, of course, in the interest of ukraine, and as we helped them to defend themselves. but these are also our interests that we ensure that the president putin doesn't win. because if he winced, the messages that are offered her empowers like russia can use military force and then achieve their goals and that'll make the whole world more dangerous to death. thank you. for your nie hunter, dave m t. mister thornburg to questions that i may, the 1st one coming back to that my colleagues question on the nuclear doctrine of russia. once again, which you encourage, if you were asked ukrainian army eager, ukrainian military to really attack there was an ex regents and by this also may be

provoking a nuclear escalation since many people throughout the world. and especially in europe, fear, nuclear escalation of this war. and the 2nd question you just today talked to chancellor shawls. and i guess you also discussed the attacks on the pipelines. what could be the nato and german response to that? what in enhanced military presence in the baltic sea, for example, a be a response that you consider. thank you. ukraine house of course to write to retake ukrainian toya toria, which is now are occupied by russian forces. that's the reason why you support them . so they can defend themselves, but also they can continue to liberate a territory. and as i said, they're an illegal annex sation or a 10th of annexing ukrainian territory doesn't change that just changed the nature of this conflict. because if we accepted, but the annexation by russia,

and there are nuclear saber, a thing actually that heard also from support the ukraine. then we accept nuclear, lat moving. then we accept that term by threatening of using a nuclear weapons or that italian powers lacrisha can achieve exactly what they want to take her control over neighbor ukraine, and the turtles from support to ukraine. in that abstract sovereign right to defend themselves against an aggressor, a right which is actually enshrined in you and charter president tooth and nuclear rhetoric is dangerous. it is reckless at nathan, of course that vigilant a. we monitor closely. walter ashad, us and russia must understand that the nuclear

a war can never be won, must never be fought. and it will have severe consequences for russia if they use nuclear weapons. and this has been very clearly conveyed to russia so, so, so we will continue to support your grain. andrew continued to supporter in their efforts to liberate even more territory because they have the right to do so. then on the, on the, on the pipelines. yes, i spoke with those officers also today we addressed of course the ssl dash against the north stream. i want a north for him to this is a serious big expulsion. so destroying to pipelines and we support also the effort, solver, or ongoing efforts of investigation to reveal the facts and the,

and the answer to determine who was behind that these effects and nato allies are a presence where the naval capabilities we're planes are in the baltic. sea in the north sea, and of course this is a message of alice and athol readiness to protect and defend each other also critical infrastructure. these allies are these capabilities this bains. this ships are also collecting an information they thought, ah, which can be helpful both for the ongoing investigation, but also to monitor the these are critical energy infrastructures on there, we are stepping up our sharing of intelligence and sharing over information, mar. com, our maritime come on in northwood is collecting

a lot of this information and the, and we were actually reviewing some the date that we have all of the collect the last weeks a months to see that when they looked through those states, i again, whether we were to discover something connected to their attacks on the, to pipelines in the baltic and see it also highlights the importance of the work which is ongoing in a thought to strengthen the resilience, including resilience over critical infrastructure. so a military presence to send the message of the parents, or to collector and monitor and collect data and monitor the infrastructure and then share information on that step. what precisions are the most important ways need $20.00 of supporting and shoulder at to print anything similar to happen to and the other are critical energy infrastructure. final question was for general goals with the wall street journal coming back to some of

the issues already raised, but thanks and large for it to support of nato members. ukraine has had notable success on the battlefield over recent weeks. but it does seem that the more success ukraine has on the battlefield, the more erratic ob, belligerent and potentially dangerous mister booting becomes so, ah, does this change the way you approach the situation? does it make you more cautious or in, in any way that this fact that the better ukraine does in fighting the russian troops, the bigger the threats seem to be from moscow? thank you. it doesn't change um what we have to do and that is to support your claim. because if we let, put in when in ukraine, it'll be catastrophic for ukraine. ukraine is cease to exist as in the pens of

a nation, but it will also be dangerous. ross is not as if in action is not a risk in action is a great risk because that will create a world where at 13 will see not that with impunity can use military force, invade a neighbor, and then a stablished to settle influence. so when you listen to what he has said, not only about ukraine, but also about her member, so the natal, east, and allies, and that will be a world that will be more dangerous for all of us. so yes, we are faced with a dangerous a war in ukraine. ah, but it's not as if that war will not be dangerous. and the more if we allow put into in a many way then will at least increase the long term risks for all loss. and that's the reason why we pay the cost of supporting your grain and knowing that the

cost the price we have to pay if we don't support them, most likely will be much higher. i'm a, we are moment voting closer. walter shaw is doing. we haven't seen any changes in the nuclear posture via vigilant we are sharing information. ah, we have conveyed very clearly to russia, that'll be severe consequences if they use a nuclear forces against the ukraine. we also have to realize that we speak about different types of escalation. one thing is escalation within ukraine. we are conveyed fair message on that. and then of course, there's also risk of escalation beyond ukraine evolving. all the nato allies were all to be medically on that. nathan, not party to the conflict. we support ukraine, but that doesn't make us pointed to the conflict. we support a sub,

a nation in the sovereign right for self defense. on top of that to be of also significantly increased on milder persons in eastern part alliance within so immediate after innovation. because we are who were prepared. so that morning of the invasion, we activated all our defense funds when the baltic sea to the black sea and thought to the additional deployment of additional troops to these them potted ons to remove any room for miscalculation or misunderstanding in moscow about our willingness, our internet to protect every inch of natal territory and more troops in eastern part alliance is sending that message. so we're earn naples aim. what we are doing is support ukraine. but the same time preventing escalation, bite sending a clear mr to moscow about the dangerous nuclear rhetoric and the consequences. a use of nuclear weapons will have an by demonstrating our original to defend and

protect all eyes. by increasing the presence of nato troops and cnn get bridges and use the bottle it odds. thank you very much. this concludes this precedent. thank you. and that a was, had nato secretary general. yes, it's a story back as speaking there, reacting to vladimir putins, illegal, a land grab in ukraine, and now i'm connected to d w's, brussels bureau, chief, alexandra phenomena who joins us from nato headquarters. alexander, you've listened in to that press conference. can you just sum up the most important points for us? well, i think we now understand better while eons of st oldenburg decided to come forward to day to hold this press conference, he described the illegal annexation of the ukrainian territory by russia. as a pivotal moment, of course,

he condemned the illegal annexation saying that this is a father, the biggest escalation of the conflict since the beginning of the war. so you can understand that nato is not only condemning or the annexation, but also that they are concerned at the same time. it was very interesting to listen to him when he was pressed on the question whether nato is now going to call on the ukrainian president to not to take back those next territories. and he was very clear about that, saying that it is ukraine's rights to fight beg to try to continue not to scale back their counter offensive that it's important and the right to take back those territories. that nato is never going to accept this illegal annexation. her, however, he also said that nato has sent

a strong message to the kremlin, making it clear that any use any potential use of nuclear weapons will have severe consequences. i also have the ws chief international editor richard walker. here with me in the studio, richard, we both listened into that and a one very important piece of news is one reaction that came out of keys today. and that is that if formerly applied for natal membership for fast track and they to membership store that was asked about that. and i thought the question, yeah, it was a very interesting exchange. and this was a surprise move by the ukrainians this afternoon. so after vladimir putin announced this, the, this move that's been expected for some time, that he was going to illegally annex these, these regions of ukraine. isn't he came out of all of them is lensky. the ukranian

president saying that ukraine now wants to join nato. and a kind of a maneuver by the ukrainians here in the hope of getting the nature protection, but perhaps also with kind of diplomatic political purposes because it was very interesting to see how stolen back responded to that because he was very sort of clear on most of his messaging, and here he voted very much to sort of talking points of played for time a bit and said, well, you know, every democracy has the right to apply for nature. within europe, we support ukraine's right to choose its own military alliances. but no decision or membership requires all 30 allies to support it. and i think this was really a sight of his discomfort at this question pretty much. and i think there's one kind of key expression that i would pick out that he said twice during the course of that press conference. nato is not a party to this conflict. he said in his introductory remarks and also later in answer to another question. and nature prefers it that way. yeah. nato is doing

a lot not to become a party to this conflict. so i think it's a very long shot move by the lensky to try again. a nato protection. well, once is war, has been dragging on for many months. but what say lensky, i think, will be hoping for is to start to get some sort of a lease or moral and more political support. maybe that this can be a lever to get more military support than from a satellite. as go back to alexandra in brussels, about the ukrainian a membership bid that is now official. how do you see this? what's, what's your take on this? how do you read barracks? what he said about this, this accelerated membership procedure. i totally agree with what to richard sat or even if her representative of the ukraine and government would show up

here to morrow on next monday, a to convey there are letter of application they that it's not really going to change the situation or the application process and that means as richard sad, that all 30 members of the alliance have to discuss that and have to be on board with ukraine, joining a nato. and are we saw it in the past with many member member saying that how can you have her a country at that say, has lost a part of its territory becoming a member that now of course ukraine is sir actively at war with russia. so i don't see this happen that we would have all the 30 members on board saying yes, we would like to welcome you. create a new member. just think about hungry. just think about turkey. technically we have to say that ukrainian army, the ukrainian army, has

a started to add here to nato standards there. have god, sir, a western weapons eh, fight on the ground using western weapon. so technically, that could be a process that is possible. but i think politically, it's very at a very controversial, a very difficult decision. sandra, mom and them are brussels, corresponded, and bureau chief. thank you very much. and also many thanks to archie from the national editor, richard walker. here in the studio with me now, it's a good time to have a look at some of the other news of making headlines around the world today. at least 19 people have been killed in a suicide bombing at an education center and cobbled dozens more, were injured afghan. police say the attack came as students were taking university entrance exams. hurricane ian has regained strength and is now having

north towards the us state of south carolina. the storm has broad, devastating winds and flooding across florida for this have been confirmed, but more i expected. officials warn ian could be the deadliest hurricane ever recorded in that state. united turkeys president recipe ad one has filed a criminal complaint against the vice president of germany's parliament. what can, could becky combat add onto a, quote, sewer rats while criticizing anchor, as refugee policy insulting. the president is a criminal offense in turkey in 2016 and filed a legal complaint against a german comedian for insulting him on television, blood sugar. you're watching the w news. he has a reminder of our top story brush as president vladimir putin assigned documents, officially declaring full parts of occupied you. praying to be part of russia in

a ceremony at the kremlin, put in claim the annexation was the choice of millions who wanted to join the russian federation at moscow would defend it's land with all of its means west and leaders about to never recognize the illegal annexation of parts of you praying. that's it from me. richard avenue, steam our don't go away. news asia is next with parish that a g. i'm gab offers and berlin and of course i'll be back at the top of the world news. thanks with with

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