[000:00:00;00] ah ah ah, this is the w live from berlin. nato says a new russian offensive as begun in ukraine as moscow steps up its assault. keith is expected to press its demands for more heavy weapons, including fighter jets at

a series of meetings today. also coming up the devastation caused by last week's earthquakes in syria and turkey is widespread. but why did some buildings remain standing while others crumbled? class new zealand declared the national emergency as a powerful cycle causes widespread flooding and forces evacuation. and the white house says there is no evidence of alien activity linked to another and to find flying objects shot down by us fight. ah, i'm gabelle as well come to the program. nato defense ministers are gathering in brussels to discuss further military assistance to ukraine. ministers from the 30 member states are meeting as russian forces continued to mount pressure on

ukrainian defences. nato secretary general against oldenburg has said that an anticipated russian offensive in easton ukraine has now begun ahead of today's meetings. dalton beg, warned that ukraine's backers are in a logistical race to supply keith with weapons and ammunition. now let sir brandy w correspondence, nick connelly and keith and rosie burgett at natal headquarters in brussels snakes are, let's start with you. ukrainian forces are locked in a fierce battle in a bad mood. what's the latest situation? there was a real sense that russia is desperate for anything that can be sold as a when after months being defensive and even losing big cities like her song to the ukrainian army. the pretty devastating image is coming out of that region. her lunar landscape full of craters, very high russian losses in terms of soldiers. that's the least what we understand from the intelligence briefings. and there's a sense that they have learnt from the past. they are not going to try and gauge

the ukrainians in kind of house to house urban fighting, but they're gonna try and cut off the 2 main routes into the city in a hope that that would then force ukraine's to retreat for now. that's not happening. they definitely sent, thank you for that could be on the call to the next week or 2. and it will also hearing reports that a russian aircraft entered polish air space. what more do you know about this? so now it's all pretty scary, kind of sparse. the detail on this, we have heard from the netherlands defense mystery that sir some dutch plains that were based in potent is part of nato's kind of a reinforcement on the eastern frank. but they escorted 3 russian planes. one re, conscious plane and its escort are kind of out of polish air space. this was coming from clinton grad. that's the russian exclaimed, between nato members, lithuania and poland. of itself. this is nothing new and these things happen all the time. but there is a sense the russia is now what's can upping the pressure,

trying to kind of find a weak spot in nature's defenses in nato's readiness. and, you know, seeing how it ukraine's western back is how they deal with this. the rosie and let's come to you with our nato headquarters. what can we expect from the meeting of native defense ministers and the ukraine defense contact group in brussels today . nature to jen stilson. burke has been speaking to press and he reiterated that promise. that pledge we've heard before that nature will stay by ukraine site and keep supporting ukraine for as long as it takes. but this meeting is really all about how to militarily make good or not promise. alexi resna called the crating defense minister is coming to these talks with the wishlist, a wishlist for weapons, but not just weapons. also the ammunition, the spare parts and the training that are needed to make those weapons effective. no nato, she insulted burke has put the emphasis really on ammunition because ukrainian forces are using ammunition at a rapid rate. and he says that means allies need to step up their efforts not only

to keep providing ukraine with those kinds of weapons, but also in order to improve their own stock piles. he said in the nato nations, the to work more with industry to try and ramp up production lines. so they can indeed keep providing ukraine with weapons and also make sure they continue to ramp up their own defenses. that's particularly relevant for countries like poland lot feel if the radio nations are nate was eastern flight that say they feel pretty exposed to additional security threats. just know, due to their proximity to ukraine, to russia or indeed to bela bruce. now the last your current friends contact group meeting and january was here in germany in january, and it was key for the decision to send tanks to ukraine. ukrainian troops are now being trained on how to use those leopards. let's take a look now as a report from poland. bio corresponded on it, some of them leverage to tanks in

action, showing what they are capable of at a military site. in western poland, the 1st ukrainian soldiers have started to train here. excess of shadowed sky is one of their instructors. she's only a her 2. we don't need to motivate the soldiers at all. in fact, we have to hold them back a bit to let them learn a bit by bit or more voucher before. they are highly motivated, young, and want to learn everything motor needed to operate or the tanks, the my grandpa junior now she veered. normally the training takes 2 months, but the instructors here say they can cut it in half. the polish government has been one of the staunchest supporters of ukraine calling time and again for deliveries of more advanced weapons. president, angie, duda himself has come from war, so to visit the training center. bah, but we'll just, we hope that these modern weapons will help them strike back against russia stronger than before,

but they both considered one of the best tanks in the west arsenal. the leopard too, is also one of the most widely used that makes him such a good fit for keith, expert, se tanks and known wouldn't be a game change on the battlefield, but they could help ukraine to go on the offensive again. only days ago, major that him hot dog and his tank brigade were fighting on the front lines indent on at screeching. now they are here in poland regular yet are girls. emir sure? i think these tanks will be a great helicopter and great support for our army. was it would at the game, were it 3 manion luxury army? when we learn how to operate them is that door and begin using them in battle. but i mean them were, you're a homo. this will have a big wrangler. oh, yeah. don't wish they were the dues of really care factory. still. ukraine has been waiting for western tanks for months. now. the 1st ones are expected to arrive on

the front lines at the end of march. donica, heard in alexandra support there that the training can be fast track to finish in half the time. is that sufficient to operate and maintain these advanced tires and get them into the battle field on time? if you heard near there in the report, these are people who have just come off the front lines in don't back these people who are used to working with tanks or be of soviet your kind of types. so this is not something that is totally new to them. i think the kind of real world in ukraine is about the logistics of maintaining these tanks and getting them repaired and getting them kind of up and ready to work at their best. there is also the issue here that lots of different modifications of the leper tank are expected to come this way. so lots of different spare parts, lots of different kind of requirements there. and a real worry that this is going to be too complex. most armies specialize on one or 2 types of tank and leave it at that. but you crane is going to have a huge kind of diversity there of equipment. that is the worry. but i think the

bigger worries also just the numbers. yes, they might get here, the 1st kind of supplies might get hit by late march, but the real kind of big numbers, the kind of battalions worth of tanks that's gonna be more like can middle of this year. so i think the timing of the kind of big numbers that would actually really allow ukraine to make a difference. that's the kind of central concern here. give us now a rosie, let's come back to you there in brussels. had made her headquarters. ukraine says it needs western fighter jets, and will we hear any firm commitments from nato today? auster ukraine secured those pledges of nate, modern main battle tanks. it hasn't, didn't i set it sites on the skies. and ukraine said it needs modern fighter jets in order to fend off these russian attacks. no ukraine's defense minister was 1st in the building as far as i could see this morning and he came in wearing a suit and out of a suit pocket. he produced a piece of cloth with a design of a fighter jet on it. i asked him if this top of your wish list today, he gave me

a wry smile and a shrug. then he was asked, or where do you expect to get these fighter jets from which country? and he simply said, from the sky, know whether or not there is some sort of a deal in the works. he would not be drawn or not ukraine presidents. lensky was here in brussels last we can. he hinted that there might indeed be some deal coming up. he said that he had heard some readiness from some country so far. the response from nature, nations, to that request for fighter jets has been know whether that means no, never or no, not yet. will. that remains to be seen. it's worth noting that russia accuses nato allies through army, ukraine, of prolonging and fueling this conflict. but of course, the view here at nato headquarters is very different, but in fact, the only party prolonging this war is russia, which is seen here at nato as the aggressor. thank you very much. w correspondence may calmly and keith, aunt rosa birch it at night had caught us in brussels there. thank you. now that i

stole off to the earthquake in syria and turkey has now exceeded $35000.00 us hopes, dwindle of pulling more people out of the rubble alive. the un says it is shifting its focus to finding shelter for survivors. oh, a moment of joy and relief. a young girl is pulled out a life from the rubble. after 7 and a half days trapped under collapsed building, the girl named mary was found in a town in southern turkey by groups of rescue workers tirelessly digging to find remaining survivors. it is difficult and often dangerous work. being inside the super dangerous the collapse. so you cannot just go inside and you should be really careful. so not the home, the people inside that kind of thing and talking hard thinking with our nails. one by one floor is slowly, slowly, but over

a week after the earthquake devastated parts of turkey and syria, the chances of finding people still trapped alive, dwindles with each passing hour. there is a sign of hope for the millions of earthquake victims in north west syria. after the country's president, bashar al assad said he will allow 2 new crossing points to the much needed humanitarian aid to reach the rebel held region. a move welcomed internationally or the assad regime has are consistently argued against additional humanitarian crossings. but if the regime is serious about this, and if the regime is willing to put those words into action, that would be a good thing for rms hearing people. immediate help is needed for millions of people in both syria and turkey. as rescue operations for survivors enter their final days,

the death toll from the devastation is predicted to rise dramatically. t w's jack park is in albany in turkey and earlier he told me more about where rescue efforts stand right now. well, the reports of people being pulled from the rubber coming few and further between as the days continue. and many of the people that are actually put, being pulled out alive are children and, and suddenly young sort of teenagers, rather than adults watching turkeys rolling tv this morning. what aid workers have started to do is to brand and to, to put signs up next to the buildings, which says, says jacobo means no sign that the marking, each building now for places where there is no longer any signed. and they should continue with their rescue efforts elsewhere. 8 days on from when the earthquake 1st hit. the question is how many more people wills we'll of been able to survive

for so long underneath the rubble. now, jack, what's needed next? most urgently? well, food, water, shelter, just here, where we are in atlanta, this is the sort of makes it 10 city that's been put up by offered, which is the turkish crisis response center. but most of the people here, the people that are just behind me here they, they're actually from the city and of a donna, their houses were affected here. but this is an enormous region that has been affected. there are hundreds of thousands of people without shelter still we believe that the region is affected was at home for about 13000000 people are in the region of that number at least. and so, and there are many parts of this region that still haven't, we haven't received much humanitarian support. so that is the apple in a donor at the moment you can see large numbers of, of humanitarian aid workers coming in and fight. some of the people that we were speaking to that were flying in with us,

said that they had been coming from keys into turkey to try and support this effort . they are trying to, as i say, how's people find them shelter, find them food, find them water. but also there is a need to start looking long term because so many people's homes were destroyed in this earthquake. now there are allegations of corruption and negligence by building contractors, and indeed the government will, people told you yet that's becoming part of the discourse as the days go on. now this region saw a construction boom and the turkish authorities have have issued warrens for arrest for around a 113 people. contractors who believe to have broken the earthquake regulation rules, a dozen also of them have been arrested publicly. films being arrested in a sort of show of desire to show that there is something being done about this. but

there are also questions about blind eyes that were turned potentially by the authorities to allow these kind of buildings to be built. and that is really sort of one of the focus is now of the discussions here in tacky about what exactly happened to perhaps ally. so many buildings that may be one up to scratch, to deal with the earthquakes, to be built. bearing in mind that turkey as a country is one of the worst affected by earthquakes in the world is says on 2 fault lines gab jackpot than reporting from other in turkey. thank you. jack ad, as we've seen over the last week, the earthquake has caused unimaginable destruction in the turkey syria border region. this here, here is cameras close to the epicenter, the quake flattened multi story buildings here and reduce the entire apartment blocks to dust and rubble. but as you can see here, there are also buildings that stand toll them all the rubble and appear to have

suffered fairly little damage in areas in that's another district in hot high profits. the quake destroyed no buildings at all and claimed not a single casualty. that's according to the mayor that despite the district being in the worst affected area, let's try to make sense of all this with do good. she hung ribeiro and anchorage she's an expert in city and regional planning with the middle east technical university that are through barrow. why are we seeing such a difference in the earthquakes impact within the very same region? hello. first of all, i would like to share my b plus convo with the people of turkey. and especially if the families of the earthquake victims of correspond we are talking about or not, the general tendency to call it potential disaster. but as you have, there are differences in the region,

and we have mentioned that the impact was covering more than 10 promise system more than 400 kilometer long distance. so these area you have time there stand, have different jo, my full declare realities also the in as long regulations bonding development. sorry. and of course differences in store to co, historically build or areas as much as the contemporary built into a key. so it's normal that we see the 1st thing, this a larger scope, but of course when we talk about the differences in a smaller urban blocks, let's say. and if they still feed the records in one building and standing out on the other, we can talk about the failures and conducting the building regulations, pulling up the colds and especially the control mechanisms to supervise these courts. now does that mean that the damage or the loss of lies could have been

drastically lower than be bullying sol as urban planners? because there are different soiled structures. there are different sides collections that can accommodate safer or let's say for built 10 lines from our scientific perspective. and if it built according to this side selection criteria, and if the fall of certain regulations nor to be the proper engineering techniques . of course, it's a safer to say we will create better living and learn with the paper conditions in this sense. so such sticky runs now likes building codes, but also authorities and contractors have been blamed for this. do you agree with that? it's actually a chain of problems. i don't want to just point fingers on one professional or the other. it starts with the central government authorities to control the local

government and local governments capabilities to control the supervision and implementation processes as well. of course, there will be some 1st and last, some group that would easily be understood as the problem because they are building the physical structure. but over bill 10 moment is not only physical, it is a pull due to very complex political, the cultural understandings and it will social life, i say. so it's not easy for me to just blamed or think as the less it's not easy for me to just blame one professional group to be dr. jung. j ribeiro and the turkish capital anchor. thank you very much for sharing your expertise with us. thank you for having let's have a look now. some of the other stories making headlines around the well to day with the mold often president my asunder,

as accused russian of plotting to overthrow her gut countries. government using foreign saboteurs. disguised as protested. the statement comes off ukrainian president blood, miss zalinski said ukraine had uncovered details of the russian plan. moscow has not responded to those allegations. thousands of people protested outside israel's parliament on monday, against government plans to reform the your dish re, b, r. proposed changes would give the government more power to appoint judges to the supreme court. opposition. lawmakers have been contesting their proposals vigorously. israel's far right government says the reforms are needed to correct an imbalance of power between lawmakers and the court. and his 3 people are dead and several injured after shooting at michigan state university in the us police surrounded the campus of the gunfire was reported at 2 locations late monday

night. police have confirmed, one suspect, was found dead from a self inflicted gunshot wound. the cyclone gabrielle as cause widespread damage in new zealand. some of the worst affected areas are on the countries north island officials have declared a national state of emergency is been described as a significant disaster. and in hawkes bay on new zealand north islands, cyclone gabrielle has left a trail of devastation. the storm hit the country with wind gusts of more than 140 kilometers an hour and heavy rain. as much as 20 centimeters has fallen in just 24 hours. with the rapidly rising waters, cutting off roads and leaving baths, waves of land submerged, and some and trying to fight their way out of the depths and to safety. it has been

a very big noise for new zealanders across the country, but particularly in the upper north island. i want to acknowledge. busy the situation that you zealand is i have been waking up so this morning a lot of families displaced a lot of homes without power. extensive damage done across the country. it will take us a while to get a handle on exactly what happened. and that's because flood waters and landslides have left some areas completely cut off. have bring efforts by emergency and rescue teams to respond. the deadly impact of the severe weather is now pushed authorities to declare a national state of emergency. for only the 3rd time in new zealand history a little, but this is a significant disaster with a real threat to the lives of new zealanders. today, we are expecting to see more rine and high winds. we through the worst of the storm

itself. but we know that we are all facing extensive flooding slips, damage rides, and infrastructure. tens of thousands of homes are without electricity. with new zealand, national power grid operator declaring an emergency following the loss of supplies . it's warned that it may take weeks for some areas to be reconnected with more severe weather expected to arrive. the united states are still working to identify unknown flying objects spotted and neutralized in north american aerospace, u. s. fighter jets on sunday shall down what they described as an 8 sided object over lake huron. that's along the canadian border. it's just the latest incidents since a suspected chinese surveillance balloon was blown out of the sky earlier this month . the white house, as the objects do not pose an immediate threat. this is the

moment, are you as jack shut down a big white balloon, which washington believed could be a sophisticated chinese spine device. it 1st entered u. s. territory in late january and was shut down off the coast of south carolina on february 4th. since then, 2 smaller objects have been shut down over alaska and canada, and another one over michigan. the uncertainty around the last 3 mysterious object has raised concerns over north american security. and among some even fewer speculation over an alien invasion. the white house has responded to these claims with amusement and good afternoon. there is no indication of aliens or terrestrial activity with these recent take downs. wanted to make sure that the american people knew that all of you knew that. and it was important for us to say that from here, because we've been hearing a lot about it,

only the white balloon has so far been linked to china. investigators are analyzing frank mans recovered at sea, hoping to find out more beating and says to the balloon was conducting whether research go with you and has rejected any connection to the last 3 objects. bershana or me other judy you joke we have stated many times may the china's civilian unmanned airship entered the u. s. aerospace accidentally which was an unexpected accident due to force missouri, which we thought maybe going into her daughter as for the 3 other so called unidentified flying objects, not her and i have no information. i don't. okay. make war her make would i mean, alex, i'm or should you show, you know, after years of mistrust, these latest tensions highlight yet another downturn in us. china relations as of european football news, investigate is appointed by you. if up, say that you,

if i itself was mostly responsible for the chaos and security failures, and last year's champions league final. the mass was delayed after thousands of liverpool fans with tickets for the game, against ral madrid, but unable to get into the parish venue that played host report, commissioned by the governing body of european foot book. as said, the mayhem that followed nearly lead to a disaster. u f. a has now apologized for initially blaming livable fact. you're watching the w news and that's it from me and the news team for now. stay tuned. the op next thought environment magazine equal africa. i'm gabelle 1st in berlin. me entity, thanks for watching. ah,

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