ah ah ah ah, this is the w news life from berlin. air raid sirens sound out across ukraine as talk, european officials get set for a summit on ukraine, and keith, ukrainian lead has one to speed up b, you membership talks, but the block says it can't fast track. the probe says

a spy balloon over the u. s. sens authority scrambling it's owner remains unclear font. the pentagon suspects china. canada's defense ministry says it's also detected a high altitude surveillance. below the w meets the residents of an island in indonesia who were taking a major polluted to court. it's a battle for survival as climate change courses, sea levels to inundate the tiny island. ah, ah, i've been fas all and welcome air raid sirens have been sounding out across ukraine, including the capitol. keith, as a joint e u. u crank summit is about to get on to white. earlier e u commission president also lafond align, visited a post office with ukraine's prime minister dennis chmod a. we're promoting a scheme where ukrainians can get hold of energy efficient. like o. c,

u is providing 35000000 volts as parts of efforts to help ukraine save energy amid repeated russian attacks on critical infrastructure. from the line arrived in keep yesterday heading up the largest e. u delegation to visit ukraine. since roches invasion. there is the feel of a family get together as members of the you commission gathered in cave for a historic joint meeting with the ukranian government. he, you, commission president, ought to live on the lion said they were there to show you up stands as firmly as ever with ukraine in its war with russia. our presence in keith today gives a very clear signal. the whole of the european union is in this with ukraine for the long haul. and we will stand up for ukraine as we stand up for the fundamental rights and the respect of the international law. but amidst all the smiles in solidarity sits another issue, i guess, for you,

uh huh. ukraine's president vladimir zalinski once she craned to become a fully fledged member of the e. u. family and quickly you prepared your application for the european union membership brilliantly. i know it by experience you became a candidate country while fighting an invasion. you continue to make impressive progress to meet the 7 steps of the commission's opinion. part of that progress is renewed crackdown on corruption, including this rate at the home of one of ukraine's most prominent billionaires. just a day before the e. u team's arrival in cave. that timely demonstration of the landscape determination to prove to doubt as in europe, that he and his government can be trusted. not only as a future e u member state, but also with billions in aid as and when the country starts to rebuild video door level. but regarding for reconstruction, if there were

a lot of discussions on various levels in europe regarding the rebuilding of our country after the war, concret. now it is time, i think, for more concrete details luasa both for fast reconstruction given and for fast financing of his process for our important process in the here. and now the e. u has promised to continue its support for ukraine by hitting russia with a fresh wave of sanctions. but when it comes to e, e e e membership, it looks like president the landscape would just have to wait until she. well, i started by asking our corresponded back sunday to tell us more about what came out of yesterday's talks. red man. so we had a high level talks yesterday in between more than a dozen, e commissioners and the ukranian counterparts. this is an ongoing process. we don't know too much detail about what was discussed there, but the main priority of this trip would have been sending

a strong signal of solidarity, a strong message of support to the ukrainian people by coming here to war torn ukraine and not holding the summit somewhere else or even remotely, there were some announcement yesterday by the new commission president, was it on the line? is she continue to? she said there would be the you would continue their supports to ukraine so far since the beginning of the war, more than 50000000000 euros happen promised to ukraine. and you will also, as, as we heard em integrates ukraine into key you programs that will help tighten you and ukraine close together, such as easy access for businesses to e and funding and your business programs. as well as a free integration to the free roaming market and customs to the extensions. for one more years, these are among the announcements that were made among the messages that were that

were sent yesterday. and i thought we expect from today's summit, but that is going to be relatively short, some of the top leaders of the you and present events, you're going to meet for just a couple of hours. so we don't expect any. and he ground breaking announcements today again, show solidarity, show support, show that they stand together. but we do know a little bit about the talking points. some, mainly this will be about you integration, you accession, how to help you train further on their track as, as to becoming a member, the commission has identified 7 areas where they want to ukraine's to work on the will probably not be an announcement today. we expect this for later, this spring on how the you integration session process will continue. now the talking point will be russian aggression room, expecting some news on the 10th sanctions package, at some point in the near future and on the global food securities also on the agenda. so how to aid, you train, help them get their get, get grain gets,

can get the food out of you can't help the training the economy, but also the developing countries around the world that need that are in need of training. great, but tell me max is ukraine any closer to joining be great. so we are a lot of praise from for, from, was left on the line. and we know from, from, from, from you sources that they are actually quite happy with how things are going here . that ukraine is actually moving quite fast on the, on their track too, as to becoming a members of the process going quite smoothly. but also we also heard that this, this meeting, or the summit today will be about managing expectations the ukrainians. want to join as quickly as possible and just a couple of years. but there is a long, arduous process that they have to, that they have to go through lots of areas of the entire system. you will have to be checked on the judiciary, for example. and there will, there will be need for, for a reform process. this could take years. might even take dickens. so there,

this does meeting this, in fact, not mean that is going any faster. there's still a long way ahead. okay, the way continues. my sandra, thanks for joining us. of kate censorship in russia has only risen since moscow wants to its full scale invasion of ukraine. but that's not stopping some artists from expressing their opposition to the war. and exhibition in st. petersburg has gone ahead despite the dangerous. why'd i child dots of peace and the words love against hate? all displayed on meat along cardboard. paste as these are the wax of 77 year old st . petersburg artist, elaina arsic over 2 dozen of these paste is created from 2014, to the present day are on display here at the local headquarters of the russian political party. yep. local exhibition opened on the last day of january the very next day. it was rated by police and the works confiscated. organizers had

anticipated such a reaction there decided not to feature or supervise most critical work, fearing it could fall under new laws, restricting freedom of expression in russia. another who knew feel of all the smuggling. unfortunately, we were not able to exhibit all the works here publicly because we need to comply with the new laws. and we wouldn't want to put alaina, also pover and the party at risk. but if you don't believe the yoga, some of her work is you are very striking when vision absolutely accurately from or thought they contain words that one would have to pay a fine for luckily, more of what did for the boys. elena, are sick over her, studied and taught art all her life work. she created her 1st political poster in 2002 after the seizure of moscow theatre by chechen rebels. hugo. yes. since then,

she's taken part in countless protests is often being detained. after russia invaded ukraine or supervised joined anti war rallies. she says she was not afraid then, and she isn't now despite the new repressive laws, both the hughes of the world but one could be worse and what is happening to her. nothing is scary. you never know what scary it, but this is my country, my homeland. why can't i say or do something peacefully without weapons dealing? new bit below several dozen people came to the opening of the exhibition in saint petersburg visit. his also wrote letters to russian political prisoners with events like this inspire hope in a bright future career. because there are many people who think the same and it's necessary for us to be close to one another. to no appreciate and love each other

with police seized a total of 19 paintings by alaina or c pover laser. the artist told reporters that she also got a visit from the police that night that she says she will keep protesting. she is known in the city as the conscience of saint petersburg. the united states is expected to send a new longer range weapon to ukraine. the ground launch small diameter bomb has a range of more than 150 kilometers, roughly double that of ukraine's current longest range weapon is would allow the ukranian army to attack russian forces from a going to distance and penetrate far beyond enemy lines. it's manufactured jointly by american aerospace company, boeing and sweden sob. a brief look at some other stories making use. bruce congress has voted down another proposal to bring elections forward to this

year a day after rejecting a similar bid. deadly unrest has rocked proof since president his august seal was ousted in december. the elections are a key demand of protest. tech still supposed to their biggest games on wall street in 5 months. facebook parent company mater fueled the rally with better than expected quarterly earnings to take heavy nasdaq stock index rose by 3.3 percent. the board of tao remained flat. australian tennis player nick curio says plead guilty to assaulting his ex girlfriend. but he won't face a criminal conviction after recording camera dismissed the charges, curious, admitted pushing over his ex girlfriend during an argument in 2021. but a judge said it wasn't pre meditated and that the risk of re offending was lower. china says it's looking into reports of a spy balloon over the united states, adding that it has no intention of violating the territory and air space of any

sovereign country. the u. s. is tracking the suspected chinese surveillance balloon that's been spotted high over the state of montana. defense officials say it's flown over sensitive military science. they've chose not to shoot it down to avoid potential harm to people on the ground. it canada says it is also tracking the balloon and monitoring what it says is a potential 2nd incident. china has warned against speculation and quote for calm as it looks into the situation. it's all quit timing for beijing with u. s. secretary of state entity, lincoln set to visit next week for more information about the balloon i spoke with in chung international relations and security expert at the us national university in singapore. so we don't have many details from the defense department. what we do know that is that fly in the stratosphere, which is above commercial traffic. the size is supposed to be something around 3

by buses, but i mean those details are scant. we don't even know what kind of surveillance it does be sort of balloons can do anything from imagery to sensory stuff, to electronic intelligence, to collecting samples. but there's no detail so we don't know what exactly this particular balloon does. although these are the range of possibilities that balloons like it might be able to do that. but there is said to be equipment in that balloon which could be dangerous to people if it were to be shot down. right. that hasn't do it debris. so if the balloon were shot down, the, basically the thing would there be an explosion, and there'll be a debrief field that would spread across the wide air is not possible to control where the debris falls in any precise manner. it could fall on people, it could fall property causing injury damage possibly, even though. okay, this, the senior official also told reporters that it's node is no doubt that this is chinese. what, what information do you have there? so that's what the us defense department has put out. there's no reason to believe

that the fabricating anything but no, that's no way to independent independently. corroborate this at this point in time, the canadian ministry of defense. so they've been tracking it, but you know, that's basically all we have at this point in time. the trainees interesting, we haven't denied it. they've called for calm and awful speculation. but if they were adamant there wasn't them. they could have also just denied it flat out, but they have not done that. what do you think this all means for chinese, us relations? so suddenly puts a complications on the upcoming, a blinking visit to, to china. this, if the visit goes on, it will certainly be an area of discussion. we've seen the house republicans call for the blinking visit to be put off. so this sort of the timing of this particular a balloon a being i'll look a put a cost of us is very curious. it comes at a time when the chinese to want to talk to the u. s. o, why they've decided to do this. if it is indeed them, it becomes very, very odd,

right? there's no clear, there's no clear cut explanation. and ian, just tell me this isn't the 1st time that this is happened. is it right? so never reports that you know it's happened before, but certainly this is the 1st time that the u. s. government has made it public. how many times people in what form on all that has not been made public previously in children sample. thank you very much for the analysis. a stolen sports minister says as many as 40 countries could boycott the 2024 parents olympics, if russia and bella ross take part, the international committee is considering allowing russian and then the russian athletes to participate. but only under mutual flag, it says no body should be prevented from competing because of their nationality and insists a boy called would only punish the athletes. for more on the question of russia's on the big participation, jonathan crane from b w. sports joins us. jonathan,

tell us a bit more about what poland sports minister said, 1st of all, yeah, the sports minister coming on board nature really not. missing his words, pennies, essentially saying it's inconceivable that russian and veteran athlete should be allowed to compete in paris when russia is waging a violent war in ukraine, killing thousands of civilians, including of course athletes. you also mentioned this idea that if russians were allowed to compete, it would legitimize russia's actions and give president vladimir putin a propaganda boost we've seen in the past how putin kind of years is athletes to promote himself and his regime and his politics. so he's trying to work on this coalition, he mentions 40 countries. that's a significant number. it's unclear, really, how many he has actually spoken to. but if enough countries take part, he says, then it would kind of make hosting the games point. this with no, for example, the u. k, that was on the countries bought nature mentioned has criticize the plans but another. the u. s. is kind of cited with the international olympic committee. let's

take a listen. in cases where sports organizations an event organizers such as the international olympic committees committee choose to permit athletes from russia and bell ruse to participate in supporting events. it should be absolutely clear that they are not representing the russian or the lucian states. and so that's the stance that we are providing and the use of official state russian regions, flags, emblems, and athens should be it as well. what about the i c 's response? well, this current criticism really has the i see the international olympic committee on the defensive last night. it released a q and a document. i counted 24 questions and answers entirely so kind of rebutting some of these accusations. the 1st thing it says that speculation about a participation of possible participation of russian and better in athletes is premature by the strange considering the i see with the one the open,

the door to that participation concerning the boy called it says, a boy called would go against its values against the olympic charter, adding, it is extremely regretful. escalate this discussion with the threats of a boy called this premature states as that word again, as history has shown, previous boycotts, did not achieve that political ends and set only to punish the athletes of the boy crossing. and i see i see being national in olympic committees of the countries the i see also reiterated its mission to kind of unite the world in peaceful competition. excited to un experts on human rights saying that no, i think should be discriminated against because of the passport. so how do you think this is all going to play out? the big question, isn't it? i think some people might be asking why we even having this discussion now, but the person picks 18 months, right? qualifying events for those games are already getting underway. now, under normal circumstances, russians and better since we're competing european qualifying event, given the board is in europe, i think the a lot of resistance and european countries hosting those event one possible work

around is that the asian council, the becomes of asia as offered russians and better the chance to compete in asian, qualifying events, such as the asian games. but once we do get to paris, ultimately federation, individual for the side where the russians and batteries can compete in those events. as we've seen in the past with the russian typing scandal, remember, because russia to the band completely didn't happen the i usually find a way of getting it. why? even if that means them competing as you don't have them coming from d w sports. thank you very much for bringing us up to date on that intriguing story . let's take a look now at some of the stories making headlines from around the world. ukraine has pressed the criminal charges against the head of russia's wagner group. if kenny goshen has been charged with waging a war of aggression against ukraine and encroaching on its territorial integrity, the wagner most in re group has been fighting for his battles with ukrainian forces

. 7 fishing nets, plastic bags traps floats, and other debris of being discovered inside the stomach of a wild look. what's the show recently in hawaii? scientists said the waste was enough to block the 17 meter long creatures in test. abandon fishing gear is one of the deadliest forms of marine plastic pollution. israel's foreign minister has attended talks in sudan and says the 2 countries expected to fully normalize relations this year. any such agreement would be the 4th israel has signed as part of the you waste brokerage abraham accords. following deals with the united arab emirates reign and morocco sick. i'm at sea levels rise due to schumann caused global warming the homes and livelihoods of millions of people in low line areas coming under threat. often the biggest sources of the greenhouse gases, the res, global temperatures, a half

a world away from the west affected areas dw corresponded gail motus reports. now, from an indonesian island whose residence have decided to take on a distant bud wold class a loose at these roots hold the future for perry island. us money earned her friends are planting mangroves. once mature the trees will serve as a natural barrier to sea water erosion and reduce the risk of flux on the $42.00 hector island, which was just off the coast of jakarta. yeah, i don't wait until we think safe, perry island. that is their message, and it's a message they have now go to court as many as want to for residence of perry island, who filed a lawsuit against cement, giant, wholesome, in switzerland, over its contribution to climate change housing at the monument. emma said that it

was ada. ah wholesome. is one of the world's biggest contributor cecia to the emissions causing climate change that impacts our island? i mean, they still have declined. the seasons are unpredictable to last. it at the sea level is rising. he and as a man must hold haul sim, responsible for these consequences of climate change. but of any kind of in this field where the women of the village or planting vegetables is one of the few left that has not been flooded by sea water. in recent years now they let wherever you go on the island, the struggle against the encroaching sea is obvious. many houses are flooded at high tide. but are if put gentle, one of the plaintiffs is determined to stay under the re, okay. kind of car, since the constant flooding began in 2019, it's been difficult to get clean water. we used to rely on this fresh water well, but now it's even unusable for dish washing elmira. look at them with the latter that the local environmental advocacy group,

while he which backs the islanders alongside a swiss and a german and g o is optimistic regarding the lawsuit. a similar environmental case against shell in the netherlands has recently been one, but they are preparing for a legal battle that could rack on for years. uncle pendleton get, the whole shim won't go bankrupt. we only demand 3 things come, mitigation adaptation. and lossing damage can this means that we want to provide corrections to the existing production mode, not to bankrupt it. before islanders are suing for $14000.00 euros in lawson damages to be shared amongst them a comparatively small amount. but for fishermen must act, fearing it would make a huge difference far results to that honestly, america but only up that they should be led by their conscience, monica, and take responsibility for what they've done, seal they reap so much and profit that they are blinded by it owns the land, they don't see that we are bearing the brunt of

a climate emergency. i know not in my chrysler, but that, that for adam online with a rapid reduction in the company's carbon emissions which the lawsuit demands, could make a difference in the long run. the plaintiffs also demanding better slot defenses and more mangrove restoration. the fight against the sea and global injustice on power. it has just begun. i spoke earlier with the author of that report, the w's chicken bureau chief killed motus and asked him why the island is chose to pursue legal action against the swiss company. actually there is no direct connection between hold them and that tiny island, which is just an hour speed old right here from, from to carla. in fact, if you look at it holds them, has withdrawn from indonesia and sold its local activities here in 2019 to a local and manufacturer. but what the n g o that have been advising?

those for plaintiffs on this island have been arguing, is that the 7th industry is emitting more c o 2 or to the roles atmosphere than the entire aviation industry. and that holds them is one of the 2 largest summon producers in the world. and that is why they figured out this company we reached out to the company for a response to our report. this is what they said. climate protection has the highest priority, the wholesome, and is at the center of our strategy. with his objective way pursuing a strict science based approach without industry's 1st validated net 0 goals, which form with the 1.5 degrees celsius pass. we do not believe that call cases focusing on individual companies. our an effective mechanism for surmounting the global complexity of climate change. a reminder of our top stories. air raid sirens have sounded out is tough. european officials begin adjoining.

somebody in chief. ukraine wants to speed up the u. membership talks with the block says it cod fast track. the process and china says it's looking into reports of a suspected surveillance balloon scene flying high over the u. s. state of montana . i think it has no intention of violating the territory or in space of any other foreign silver contract. next up to the point with a look at where the heavy weapons applied to ukraine by the waste made late. i've been visible and see you next to help with with

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