it's a priority for me and my contact group colleagues to ensure that our donations continued to be used as intended. and that we both moved proactively to prevent arms full information. and we will keep working with our ukrainian partners to ensure that all of the equipment that were providing continues to reach the brave troops on the front lines. now, a year ago, potent assume that ukraine was an easy target. potent assumed that keith would easily fall. and potent assume that the world would stand by but the kremlin was wrong on every count. over the past year, ukraine soldiers have fought valiantly for their country. ukraine's people have shown deep courage in the face of russian cruelty and countries of good. we all have rallied to defend an open order of rules and rights. together we seek

a world where disputes are resolved peacefully. where sovereignty is respected, where borders are honored. in we're civilians are protected. those are the values of this contact group. we stand united in our support for ukraine's fight for freedom and we will stand together, unite it in resolute for as long as it takes. and with that, let me turn it over to general milly. thank you. second dawson in thank you for your leadership leading this 9th, her success of contact group. this is an incredible level of effort and by many, many countries. and i wouldn't be happening without the leadership of 60 austin a good afternoon everyone. and let me start by giving my condolences to the people of takia and syria, with the tragic loss of life and suffering has occurred because

a recent earthquake also suffering of ukrainian people. we are approaching the one year anniversary of russia's illegal invasion of the sovereign nation sovereign nation of ukraine. and i want to thank the ministers of defense and the chiefs, the defense that were here today. representing 54 countries that continued to participate in this group. the actions of those leaders over the last year have contributed substantially with real effect on the battlefield. and they collectively of demonstrated unwavering commitment to the defense of ukraine and a special thank you to the crania and mentioned defense resonant cough. and his deputy john jo, moisten, who continued display, exceptional leadership and my friend jennifer loosening who was on the battlefield

every day. leading his country's defense. 10 days from now is the one year anniversary. when russia brutally illegally in a completely unprovoked way, invaded the sovereign nation of ukraine. as the secretary just pointed out, potent thought he could defeat ukraine quickly. fracture the nato alliance and act with impunity. he was wrong. ukraine remains free. they remain independent. nato and his coalition has never been stronger. and russia is now a global prya. and the world remains inspired by ukrainian bravery and resilience in short. russia has lost, they've lost strategically operationally and tactically, and they are paying an enormous price on the battlefield. but until pohden ends is

war of choice, the national community will continue to support ukraine, the equipment and capabilities it needs to defend itself. through this group, we are collectively supporting ukraine's ability to defend its territory, protect it citizens and liberate their occupied areas. in the face of a barbaric russian invasion, ukrainians remain resilient. the nation of ukraine is united for one single purpose to expel the russian forces from the territory and to defend themselves. for ukraine. this is not a war of aggression. it is a war of defense. for russia, it is a war of aggression. the russian military is paid tremendous cost in their war of aggression. and now they resorted to sending conscripts and prisoners to imminent death. in recent months, the group of gather here today pledge to provide significant quantities about

a feel capabilities. tanks, air defense and munitions. 11 countries of pledge tanks 22, have pledged infantry fighting vehicles, 16 pledged artillery ammunitions, and 9 more pledged air defense artillery. the group is focused, focused on delivering the capabilities committed and efficiently providing the training, the spare parts, the sustainment logistics necessary for the full employment of these systems. training, maintaining, and sustaining ukraine's remains key for ukraine to prevail. throughout this war, ukraine has shown incredible resourcefulness and how they integrate varied capabilities to adapt the changing dynamics at his battlefield. ukrainians of combined, unbreakable will with innovative tactics and empowered their leaders to liberate their own country. russia on contrasts is waging a very costly war of attrition. while ukraine is effectively leveraging their

asymmetric advantages in order to defend itself. and the most important asymmetric advances they have is courage, resilience, and tactical skill. this war is extremely dynamic. and ukraine today is fighting while training and evolving for future operations. ukraine will integrate recent commitments of armored vehicles, infantry fighting vehicles, and tanks. with fires that g, the effect of synchronized ground maneuver. while russia has wages war for far too long, they will not outlast ukrainian people, nor the group of allies and partners that met the day. the purpose for the united states and allies at sad bar political leadership is very simple. it's to uphold the rules based international order and order that rejects the idea that big, strong, powerful nations can attack other smaller countries that borders shall not change just by the use of aggressive military force. this is the very underlying founding

principle of the united nations. at the end of world war 2, ukraine does not stand alone. 54 countries met to day to ensure that you crank and defend itself, and the principles that guide international conduct. and those principles will be upheld. we will remain a unified coalition, will continue to uphold the values of sovereignty and freedom will continue to support ukraine. thank you and i welcome your questions. tarka. if secretary austin and he said earlier, this is a crucial moment for ukraine and that the allies need to get air defenses and munitions into ukraine. now, what are you seeing from russia that makes this moment different? and the nato secretary general has already warned that ukraine is burning through munitions faster than a rate that the allies can supply it. will you at some point,

need to ask ukraine to do more with less? and then for chairman mili, did one of the missiles fired at the lake huron object miss? and if so, what happened to that missile? and if so, does that change your risk calculus for shooting down objects over us soil? are you starting to develop alternatives? if, if and when you detect the next object. so in terms of where we are, thanks tara terms of where we are in the fight. what we see, what we seen over the last several months is contested battlefield. we see a lot of activity in the, in the bach mood area, which is where russia is, is focusing most of its effort. we see russia introducing a number of new troops to the battlefield. many of those troops,

her ill trained and in an ill equipped and so they're casualty rate has been really high. and what ukraine wants to do in the, you know, at, at the 1st possible moment is to establish or create a momentum and, and establish of conditions on a battlefield that continue to be in its favor. and so well, we expect to see them. i conduct an offensive sometime in the spring and because of that, you know, we are we all of the partners in the, in the ukraine defense contact group have been working hard to ensure that they have the armored capability, the fires, the sustainment to be able to be effective in creating the effects on the

battlefield they want to create. and so we believe that there will be a window of opportunity for, for them to exercise initiative and then change it or continue to, to create the, the right conditions on the battlefield. there in terms of munitions, this has been a tough fight throughout and we've been a huge ukraine. has been at this for a year. and so they have used a lot of artillery ammunition. we're going to do everything we can working with our international partners to ensure that we get them as much of ammunition as quickly as possible and that the will, it will do everything we can to sustain our efforts there as well. we are working to with the ukranian soldiers and various places throughout europe to emphasize

additional training on maneuver. so that it as a place more emphasis on maneuver inch and shaping the battlefield with fires and then maneuvering. there's a good chance that they'll require less. that was artillery, munitions, but that's left to be seen. so we're gonna do everything we can to make sure that they have what they need to be successful. and that's what we continue to emphasize here in the ukraine. different defense contact group and, and we think the training will pay additional dividends as well. just tear on the billing shot. yes, the 1st shot missed. i thought that you as defense secretary got lloyd to austin. i tat nato. had cortes sag, giving a press conference on falling, a meeting today's meeting of that ukraine at the international and contact group. and let's go straight to act correspondent terry schultz. and who's outside at night at headquarters a. was that listening in on that out. welcome back,

terry. i'm anything unexpected bad he think surprising. no, nothing. nothing surprising. i think that one of the things that a secretary austin is really attempting to to emphasize is that it's not just about getting big new weapon systems. it's about using them to their maximum capacity. he talked about how they're going to integrate these systems. they're setting up a, a new center to do more coordination. and he didn't announce a whole lot of new weapons at new deliveries. as far as i could tell, he said that a italy in france will be delivering some air defense, which we know is very, very important. and again, as we were speaking about earlier, phil, he said now 11 countries are giving tanks. so a month ago nobody was giving tank so that so some real progress for ukraine. interesting. i'm on the, to the, the, the 2nd question to he was asked, which was effectively a,

given the fact that certain credit is burning through so much ammunition will ukraine have to do more with less and the u. s. defense secretary, it seems to say yes. sorta i thought that was an interesting question too, as well as an interesting answer. so i think that everyone is worried that ukraine will literally run out of ammunition. i, i don't think they're there yet, and maybe that would never happen. but they would have to perhaps conserve more than they are right now. but this was an interesting answer because what he said that, that was that with more training and they're very much putting as many ukrainian soldiers as possible into training now that they won't meet as much. and with, with new weapons systems, perhaps they won't run through as many of the smaller caliber munitions as they are right now. but, but he also said at the end of that answer, as you'll note, that remains to be seen. okay, so this is the 1st of a couple of big meetings. so for the usaa defense, the secretary,

after that she goes on to meet with nato defense ministers. what are we expecting that a well, ukraine, ukraine, ukraine, that's the biggest issue here today. you can't get away from it tonight, did 30 defense ministers. we'll have dinner with the finland and sweden who of course are knocking on the door. i haven't heard any, any progress on, on that issue of turkey keeping sweden out at the moment. and they'll also have a at that dinner will also be e, you hi, representative joseph burrell. because one of the other important things about coordinating nato's assistance to ukraine is coordinating with the european union who is also doing training, who is also giving weapon, giving money back to the allies who give weapons to ukraine. so the european union has actually really stepped up on the defense side, and that's something that they want to see done most efficiently. so there's not duplication between nato and the you. that's something that's constantly

a concern around here. so they'll all be discussing ukraine tonight. are you so much for about a territory shells in brussels arts with cracks in southern turkey and syria, more than 37000 people on now known to have been killed in this disastrous event. united nations says it is the worst disaster in the region for a 100 years. tens of thousands of being evacuated from the hottest areas of southern turkey and hot i province. the city of on talker was almost entirely flattened. i corresponded jojo hog you say i'm talkin and told me more about the situation well and tucker is a city in ruins. the scale of the destruction here is massive about 70 percent of the city. these are the estimates here are gone. just look around. i'm trying to show you a little bit of what i see here. we've been driving around town to day and we saw

hardly any building still standing, and the buildings that are still standing are shattered, cracked, tilted, unsafe and uninhabitable. and you should know that on takia used to be a home for more than 400000 people. it's a city with a rich cultural heritage. i'm in fact in the ancient old city right now, which was a popular spot with tourists from turkey, but also from a broad, a city that was multi cultural, multi religious. but the architectural damage done here is colossal to iconic landmarks as well as 7th century mosque. the city synagogue churches have been heavily damaged and then of course, when we speak with the people who decided to stay here, they are in so much pain because everyone here has lost someone. so people are grieving, they are grieving for their loved ones. they are grieving for their city. we still

see search and rescue teams, a disaster response teams of both from turkey, of course, but also from mexico, from australia. they are still walking the streets and trying to hear if there are sounds, a noise is coming from under these piles of rubble. one team from istanbul told us that they are determined to continue. they won't give up to try and find survivors even though the chances of still finding people alive now, all very, very slim. but you have also have to know that many of the roads here are entirely blocked by the collapse buildings. the main roads have been cleared and are accessible, but there are many small roads. the teams have not yet managed to access. so, you know, you mentioned some of the people who have survived and stayed. how are they living? what of actually, what are the easy, what are you living on? well, 1st of all, am what we see here today is basically

a ghost town. most of the people, many people have, have left and takia. they moved to city the villages nearby. and those who stayed are now living basically in intent camps that have been set up here by n g o z by the authorities. some of the tents were being told will be replaced by more solid containers. but still the situation is desperate. we spoke to 8 workers here on the ground. many of them are actually volunteers and they tell us, there are still people who sleep out in the open. they need tens shelter, heating, electricity, generators. they need high jenny products, they need toilets and things like underwear. so because people have lost almost everything here and what they also need is psychological help because the people here who have been through this nightmare here in antalya, they are absolutely traumatized. and is it too early to think about what happens next when a place has been so comprehensively destroyed?

that's what i've asked people here to day and they have absolutely no idea what's coming for them in the next day's next few weeks. months, even the turkish government has promised to wake dims all these earthquakes, financial aid. they have promised to provide permanent shelter within a year, but from where i am standing, seeing the destruction is very hard to imagine how, you know, reconstruction could look like the entire city basically would need to be rebuilt and reconstructed. it's a city where the history of mood and 2000 years, which was to a large part wiped out a by these earthquakes within minutes. and this is gonna take time. it's also gonna take time for people to come to tons. was to really understand what has happened here. thank you. lou. julia han in on taca and son tucker. will you? i'm says the focus of his operations in the disaster zone is now on caring for people

who have been made homeless. but emergency crews have not given up the search for survivors, and they're still saving people who've been trapped for more than a week or more than a week trapped under rubble of 17 year old mohammed is pulled out alive and caught him on marsh and turkey. near d at the center of the devastating earthquake he's carried to an ambulance, who hm at brother, becky, is rescued soon after, but hopes of finding more survivors are fading fast. rescue teams are scaling back operations to focus in both turkey in syria is shifting instead to helping survivors. first with immediate relief, like food, water, and shelter. and then assisting them long term. the rescue phase is dragging live people out from the rubble and finding those who died to the rubble that's coming to a close. and now the humanitarian says,

the urgency of providing shelter psycho social care food schooling and a sense of the future for these people. that's our obligation ago. serious infrastructure was already battered from over a decade of civil war. in some areas, the earthquake brought total devastation, liking government controlled aleppo. people are waiting for shelter, tense and blankets. but mistrust of the regime runs deep. many fear the 8 coming into the country will not reach them. serious government has so far only allowed aid to rebel areas through one border crossing public foot, but in an unprecedented move. but it says it's reopening 2 additional land crossings with turkey. syria support. the entry of humanitarian aid into the region through old porcelain cross points

with ever from inside syria or across the border. for the period of 3 months, his displace syrians living in dire conditions and the rebel health northwest can only hope the promises kept sunk own shallow mobile. in turkey, the disaster destroyed 10 cities. at least 40000 buildings collapsed or worse severely damaged. many now need to be demolished, turkeys government has been accused of a slow response to the quake didn't a relief and long term reconstruction are set to be a major challenge, multiple service along with housing, the millions who are suddenly left homeless. let's look at this with her dashing yasemin act, ashton's and engineer at so university college london specializes in the effects of earthquakes on buildings. welcome to the w a. this is an area that is prone to

seismic activity. so what, why has this event been so devastating? well it was a very large and powerful earthquake and it was not only one but 2 earthquakes in a row. we should add to this thought it was a shallow worse make. so the impact of the earthquake was even more pronounced on the, on the bills environments. and then combined with the non compliance or building stock or unfortunately this led to this incredible disaster, right. so tell us about compliance and do better constructive buildings withstand greater shops or, or do they just fall down more safely. and so any time both really the turkey has really robust and technically sound building codes. and despite the fact that, as i said, this was a very large man's and it will challenge even comp, compliance, buildings. definitely the damage mechanisms that you're observing on site would be

such that the lice could there be and saved even ban damage happens. we actually do not expect to see such sudden and brittle pancake style collapses, and we could have saved a lot of lives. so what's without getting to technical don't know, i mean, i'm intrigued by how different, how a different sort of building would have saved lives. so because i've been, i've been hearing about buildings designed to collapse so that there are gaps that people can live in. well, in the engineering design operates such that we actually allow buildings to get damaged because this is one way of dissipating the energy and that the earthquake actually impacts on the, on the buildings. however, we design such that the damage happens in such a way that people can be safely. walkways from the buildings without a this sudden and you know, complete collapse. it takes place. so when you look at the pictures of an area

that has been so comprehensively destroyed, walk us through your mind as an engineer good. is it easier to rebuild something that has been completely flattened? or rather than having to sort of go round area sort of sort of still still where, what, how does rebuilding take place? well now that the search and say rescue operations are coming to a close, of course the entire engineering community, both in turkey and, and international. the are going to go to the field and are going to complete their engineering assessments. and from case the case, sometimes we can actually suggest that the building is retrofit and you know, continue to be to be occupied. but the residual load bearing capacity needs to be of all the way to through a set of engineering tools. and yes, we might actually, i suggest that some buildings are taken down entirely and rebuild because they will

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