ah ah ah ah, this is the w news life from by land. the european union's top leaders travel to ukraine. you commission representatives are in cave to show solidarity. crane's defense minister wants of russia could be planning and offensive. the 1st anniversary of being. also on the program, supplying battle tanks to ukraine comes to the cost for an already under equipped

german army defense minister, promised to act quickly. usaa vice president common harris attends a funeral of tyree nichols in memphis, tennessee is death of the hands of police. officers has revived the plate about released by belgium, drugs, gangs bringing cocaine through the port of ant work. wage at dead leave. europe stop policing agency struggles to control the trade that many port workers a to sketch talking about. ah, i'm feel gail, welcome to the program, ukraine's defense minister alexi a resonate coff has warned that brush is planning a major offensive. during a visit to france, he said a new attack could start on the anniversary of russia's invasion on the 24th of

february. according to mister resnick, off moscow has already mast thousands of troops in preparation. when it comes, as you commission president ocean on the line and other top officials visit, keep ahead of you. frame summit on friday, straight to the ukrainian capital, where we joined correspondent max xander. welcome max. so what more do we know about this to you? mission to keith. all right, looks like we can't, we can't turn here at max xander at this stage, so we'll move on. well, most of the commissioners are, will be in ukraine today. the parliament in brussels will debate you policy towards

you credit. let's see if we can join jack park in brussels. jack, go welcome. tell us more about the symbolism of this visit as the 1st anniversary of the war approaches and as apollo debates ukraine today. that's a really, really big day fell. what we're seeing is the 1st time that the college of commission is meeting. so the main sort of big wigs of the european commission meeting in elective was zone this summer is really about symbolism. it's about showing ukraine the, the european union remains on their side. that's why they're doing it. that's why they're going there. but there are also some big discussions about what this will means practically. and i, we know that from communications that we've seen beforehand, it's very unlikely that the ambitious shad jewel that ukraine ones for you x session that it's been calling for. perhaps a time frame of within 2 years has been requested. that's very,

very unlikely to be offered during this summer. the question is, what will they do that they're going to probably talk about some sort of these are free regimes or so for industrial goods. they're also going to be discussed and discussing this idea of some kind of tribunal agency to look into the crime of aggression that would potentially be stationed in the hague. a lot of c e ministers have been talking about that also want to watch in this summit is the different reactions of us live on the line. the european commission president and sha michelle, the european council president who are widely reported now to be trying to sort of i do one another in their support of ukraine and sort of show the ukrainians, which of the institutions of the european union is most on their side, but as i say this real issue of you accession, which is the ukrainian government, is very, very keen on that looks like they're not going to get the promises that they would

probably hope. having said that, that debate that's going on in the european parliament, the parliament is always very in favor of this. most of the political groups have come out saying that is a quick time table should be scheduled. but as i say, unlikely during this summit and keith as the possibility of sending as support to ukraine, likely to be part of today's discussions. it's certainly going to be on the table what we've seen now with the tanks going in the germans opening the door for tanks and actual tanks going into ukraine to support the war effort. and i raise the discussion about ad offenses and as soon as the ukrainians got the, the time they started talking about aircraft and there was discussion about f. 60 is not important to know here. the discussions will take place, but the european commission and the college of commissioners that are attending are not really the people that would make those decisions. those decisions will be made in the big military countries of the european union of the capitols in berlin, in paris. and elsewhere, but that doesn't mean that the sort of you as

a whole can't look at this. and certainly what we'll see with the senior ukrainian government officials, they will be pressing the european kinds of parts to make those cases for those, those aircraft. pretty much though, for what we've seen is a bit of a blanket no on those aircraft. at the moment, it's only just been a case that the tanks have started to go. and that was a very thorny issue, especially in germany. and i think that they will be reluctant to move quickly on sending any air defenses in just yet. ok, thanks a lot jack. jack park in brussels. britain's defense. so secretary says the u. k hasn't rolled out sending fighter jets to ukraine adding to uncertainty of a case request. a france as there is also a leaving its options. while the u. s. and germany have ruled it out of berlin, struggle with a decision to supply your credit with advanced leopard to tax. now, the country's defense minister has acknowledged that his army could use

a few tanks of which are fast and deadly. the leopard too, could be a game changer in ukraine. germany says it will deliver 14 of them by the end of march for ukrainian forces to use on the battlefield. defense minister boris per story is visiting the base from which the tanks will come said the decision to send leopard carries a cost with islam as already. okay. the fact is that ukraine needs every support and lettered tanks, whether they are 2 a 6 is what 2 a fours can play an important role in the ukrainians kite against the russian aggressor in august. so everyone understands that it has to happen, even though it is of course, regrettable and of the exercise and training capacities are being significantly reduced as a result. likelihood would fit van the price tag for a leper to is anywhere between $3.70 euros, depending on how it's quit. the german firms that make the tank and now being asked

to hurry to produce ne, once to ensure the country can defend itself. 100000000000 euros have been promised by the government to make the bonus. van fit for purpose, but some are already asking if there will be enough in china for media decisive. thank to for me is that we have to order new tanks and not in a year's time, but quickly. so that production can begin here. and we can plan how many new leopards we will have available. and when, where the money comes from, where to put it in casual terms, i honestly don't care at his ego. after a period of hesitancy, germany is now showing its military muscle. that new readiness for action brings with it new challenges for the countries armed forces are in take a look at a small stores making headlines around the world. now the rest will expand its military presence in the philippines, defense sanitary, lloyd austin, confirmed the move after a meeting with president furden on martha's junior. while you are such troops have

been granted access to more military comes in the country after that the u. s. them wasn't looking to have permanent vices. israel launched astride some targets in the gaza strip early on thursday and palestinian militants fired rockets into his row. in response was rife, came hours after israeli ag defenses intercepted a rocket launcher garza. his latest exchange of fire comes amid a surgeon, violence in the region. protesters commemorating the victims of sexual abuse and the catholic and the catholic church. the funeral of cardinal george. how in sydney, paul was one of the most senior figures in the valley here. weddings found guilty of sexually assault inquire, boys. we spent a year in prison before his convictions in the united states family, friends and civil rights activists have said good bye to tyrique nichols. the 29 year old black man died from his injuries after being beaten by 5 black police officers in the city of memphis. warners were joined by us vice president cobbler

harris, who echoed calls for police reform. you ah, my story. after days of protests over his teeth, mourners gathered to celebrate tyree nichols life, his friends, family, and civil rights activists. attending mister nichols funeral on the 1st day of black history month. remembering a father, son, brother, denied, escaped border, liberty, and photographer. last steady diary was a beautiful person. if it is to happen to here, it is at a bad to the book. these flowers now lie and memory of tyree nichols at the skate park. he used to visit. mister nichols died 3 weeks ago after being brutally beaten by memphis police officers who pulled him over while he was driving home. 5

officers have since been arrested and charged with murder. in his eulogy, civil rights leader, reverend al sharpton, condemned their actions. there's nothing more insulting and offensive to those are was that tried to open doors that you walked to those doors and act like the folks we had to fight for to get you to the door. you least, vice president carmella harris also paid tribute to mister nichols sang. the country mourned with his family. this is a family that lost their son and their brother through an act of violence at the hands and the feet of people who had been charged with keeping them

safe. and as vice president of the united states, we demand that congress passed the george floyd justice and policing act. joe biden will sign it. i re, nichols family are also calling for the x to be brought in, which would require a data base full police officer misconduct and a ban on no, not warrants. those calls for change. now getting louder in the hope that more lives won't be lost. so is congress likely to pass the george floyd justice and placing act is i wasn't a correspondence stephan simons i'll that's a tough question. you know, if you would have asked me 3 years ago after recovered or the untimely and horrible death of george floyd. if this is going to happen, if the george floyd, police and justice act will go through congress, i would have said yes, no doubt ill go through and guess what?

it didn't a crash and burn in the senate. now the senate is in democrats hands, but the house is in republicans hands and i'm not so sure if it will really happen . i think millions of americans are hopeful. many politicians on both sides are hopeful. it will because that's what, not only kimberly harris, but also al sharpton and everybody there and everybody in the community, black lab school matter community and those families who lost their daughters, brothers sisters, her husband's father's mothers, and hoping for real change. and al sharpton said in his eulogy, which was really strong that he and many, many, many others will not stop fighting for the george flight policing and justice. and going through congress, real reform, structural reform, accountability for police,

and then the prevention of something happening. what we just witnessed on video for the world to see, to tarry nicholas sat and sons. let me take you back to our top story. now. they are pending a visit to ukraine of a new commission that president should have fun to line. and i shall. and michelle max xander is in keith. welcome max. at tell us certain more about this sir. visit to keith today. right so, so this is quite a remarkable event. this is going to be the 1st d you, summits held in inactive war zone. so you can imagine there's a lot of, there's a very tight security protocol here and very little information being shared about this trip by the public. but what we do know is that 16 e u commissioners are in kia to day, as well as the head of the european council shall michelle, who will be heading the cranes summit to morrow. and the leader of the european

commission was enough on the line. and there they have come here to, to ukraine to key if to day toll talks with you training officials with the training politicians to discuss further assistance to the country during the war now and potential future relations, including the u membership. and why such a high level delegation right, so this, this e u summit probably could have been done remotely. it could have also been done outside of the country and relative safety gear for still on a regular basis, being attacked with miss l. so this comes at a great risk, but this is also about, i'm, it's, it's about talking and discussing that is discussing the talking points are working on a certain on under, under a mutual relations. but it is also about sending a strong signal during the war that the you stands by ukraine side and that russia will not prevail. also, ukraine, i was granted candidate status to become a e member at some point in the future, potentially i last summer. so this, this,

this, these meetings, these talks was focused on that and also be about showing the ukrainians that this process is still ongoing. yeah, so she should and should, should vague the ukrainians. andy, they should, we interpret this visit as an indication that brussels is favorably inclined to grant that request. well, that is, that is very difficult to say because i'm getting you membership coming. you members of very complicated, long, multi level process. ukraine will have to prove that its laws are on par at the same level as those in the rest of the u. u. u officials will go through various chapters 35 and told ranging from, from agriculture to politics. they will have a look at corruption at traffic at healthcare, all these things and see if they're on at the same level as in the you and then

this might start a reform process where needed. so this could take very long time now and you are ukranian officials have been asked have been pushing for swift access to the you, potentially in 2 years or a bit longer. but then you have you leaders like the french present um on, on my call earlier said that this might, this process might take decades. right? and being in an act of wars on having russian boots on the ground in your, in your country, is also not going to speed things up. so you officials ahead of this of this, this, this visit ahead of the summer to morrow. also said that this meeting will be about, or this visit will be about managing expectations. ortho, max, max and the in care. i'm missing radioactive capsule that sparked her regional alert in western australia has been found. according to officials, a device which contains a harmful amount of radioactive st. of the radioactive substances in 137. when missing more than 2 weeks ago, while he was being transported along

a desert road from a remote mine. the government's now investigating how it happened. it was a surge described as like looking for a needle in a haystack. but after almost a week of scouring the australian out back and hundreds of kilometers of highway, the hunt for a missing radioactive cap till it's finally over. all sorties releasing these images of the spot where the tiny device was finally found. sitting just 2 meters from the side of the road. that a part of foreign emergency services has led a relentless search. over the past 6 days, their investigation led to the rapid establishment of a search and a search area. and today's result has vindicated that work. and when you consider the scope of the research area at locating this object was a monumental challenge, the cap steel itself um its dangerous amounts of radiation equivalent to receiving 10 x rays in an hour. it was tracked down with the help of nuclear experts using

specialist detection equipment. the australian defense force is currently verifying the capture using its serial number. a 20 made a hot shower has been set up around the capture and it will be placed into a lead container to shield from radiation. the mining group responsible for the device rio tinto has said it will pay for the cost of the search operation if asked as the government investigation into how the capsule was lost in the 1st place is launched. take a look at some more of the headline, sir. making news around the world. you as president, jo bivens lawyer. so the left, the i search of the presidents are beach out in delaware, has turned up no documents with classified market documents have been found in a number of other locations linked to mister bohn. as long as the president's been cooperating with all of the searches turkish president reggie type ado on says

anchor will look positively on finland's application to join nato. but he repeated his opposition to sweden's fear and recent koran in stock on good terms. in cordele, my good like the force of antwerp and belgium has become the number one gateway for latin american cocaine destined for europe. the trades controlled by powerful international gangs and comes with high levels of violence and corruption problem. so acute that antwerp smith is calling for the army to be deployed. terry schultz reports looks to me like a kalashnikov very small, completely round. is that what the drug dealers are using some from on the recent shooting death of an 11 year old girl in her family home in antwerp, believe to be an accidental killing in a dispute between gangs has drug culture research tune wharton fearing attacks will now spiral i hope it will be cycle revenge, because then you have a whole new level of violence in, in,

in predictable dynamics. belgian authorities seized a $110.00 tons of cocaine last year, a record, but they estimate that's only about 10 percent of what's imported. not enough to disrupt criminals business. they're boosting their efforts planning to deploy more than a 100 extra people at the port along with new scanning equipment. but the added scrutiny may make smugglers even more determined to recruit insiders to help get the cocaine on to land. they're already targeting port employees. they approach you very directly as show pictures of your family, of your kits, of, of friends. and this is a, not a very subtle way of working it's, it's a real threats. stephan vanham is the general manager at alpha port vodka, which represents employers at the port of antwerp. he said it was risky to even speak with us on the topic. i realized that this is a danger maybe also for myself and my family. i think there's no alternative for

them being open about this problem. if you stay silent, i considered us to be cooperation to these guys. i think we need to stop them. that's a top priority for the e. u. police agency euro pool because so many other crimes are linked to drug trafficking. whoever is involved in drug trafficking is alton, both in money laundering and dockman for europe, whole emphasizes. it can't even begin to tackle this problem without help from around the globe. yon up in north says they're increasingly teaming up with origin countries like colombia, as well as places where meetings often sit. he says it's working step by step quite a few high volume targets. read taken out, were arrested in dubai. and, and they were allegedly orchestrating cocaine trafficking into the you from dubai. so this loophole will be close. so many loopholes remain open, but 10 voting says, doing nothing. it is not an option. you're just gonna say, oh,

we just let them do their way and a little did the city of the country and europe flocked with cocaine. it is not an option. in the meantime though, the piles of confiscating cocaine in belgium are so big already that authorities fear the gangs will try to steal the drugs back before they can be destroyed. a pope frances has led a huge open air mass in one of africa's most catholic countries. the democratic republic of the congo, an estimated 1000000 people, turned out to his message of peace and forgiveness in the capital kinshasa recent months. conflict in the east of the asi has disposed hundreds of thousands of people ah, a day of pure joy and anticipation congolese catholics have long been waiting for this. pope francis on his way to lead a massive open air service in their capital kinshasa. most of them were not yet alive. the last time the pope came to visit you. many people here camped actually

outside this airport, just to get a good position to see the pope with their own eyes. many dollars they were so excited about the paypal visit, the fast since 1985. i'm so happy to kind of visit our country and we hope that this visit can it can give a b as in our country because we are some difficult up. okay. i understood the message that we should show mercy for each other that we should reconcile had so that peace can come back to our country. tony would he got to gauge it, but visit ne, upon the pony culture piece. he called for them to put an end to the war in the east, and i gave her your letter. even though geographically people here are far away from the conflict in the east of the country in their hearts and minds, then yes, peace and reconciliation of the 2 cornerstones of pope francis trip to the dear sea and later to south sedan. he came to draw attention to 2 countries with protracted

and neglected prices, and to remind the international community not to ignore them. he also criticized rich countries of exploiting the african continent. julie, mom, you know his hands off the democratic republic of the congo, both hands off africa, stopped choking africa. it's not a mind to be stripped or to be plundered with clueless lucky john. these words struck a nerve with the congolese, says this civil society leader. he says, the neglect of the international community became particularly visible during the war and ukraine. why? you saw the international community mobilized against the aggression from russia against ukraine. but look how they mobilized against the aggression for a wanda against our country. we're in the same world same humans. um that the support from the international community is reluctant. absence of means absence of sanctions to us. this is unfair. he and other catholics hope to hear more clear

messages from the pope. in the coming days. on friday, the pope, a continuous trip to south dawn, west message will also be about peace and reconciliation. to criticize the international community had grown accustomed to violence in this part of the walls . with this trip, his aim is to highlights another neglected crisis. stand reminder of our top stories are based out, a use top officials have arrived in keith to show solidarity with the crate crate defense minister has warned that russia could be planning a new offensive to coincide with the 1st anniversary of the invasion mourners in the u. s are said good bye to tyrene nichols. the 29 year old black man died after being beaten by police campaign is at the ceremony repeated pulls from end to police violence urged the passage of legislation to reform. law enforcement

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