shall fall a contract for the people far behind the boss. guardians of truth starts february 18th on d. w. it's with the the, the news live from the the battle back in easton, ukraine is now the longest standoff in the war with russia and ukraine, determined to take the city despite heavy casualties. also of the program nature. chief again, stalsen burke outlines new pledges for ukraine, including heavy weapons and military training, and asks member states to ramp up ammunition production. 9 days into syria is

a great disaster, damascus degrees of deals with the you add to allow 8 into some serious worst affected and germany's flight carry out. love concert councils, hundreds of flights because of a major i. t problem with air traffic controllers divert all flights away from the airlines main hub at franklin. ah, i'm feel gale. welcome to the program moscow's intensifying its efforts to take back martin easton ukraine. russian troops of been shoving golden 20 villages and towns in the area making of the sides of the longest running battle of this war. unless say the cities not strategically important, but victory would be symbolic. ukraine and russia are both determined to prevail, travelling as i'm different game was from them to draw us up again. this is the

glimpse according to russian state td into what's become known as the meat grinder . with over the city of blackmore has been nicknamed as such because neither the russians nor the ukrainians have been able to make much progress here. resulting in a brutal stalemate that's produced the longest battle of the war. and one of the bloodiest for old site involved to both of them. if everyone can see that we're having a hard time on this section of the front of the enemy are constantly attacking and small and big groups of one day. it's their artillery. on the next day, they're infantry attacked certificate. it's a difficult time at the moment, but our boys keep standing their ground with the battle full back, which is now in its 7th month. russian officials recently claimed that its full says have almost encircled the city. not se, says the head of the walk in

a mercenary group, which has spearheaded the russian offensive boy, oh boy, pushing forward house by house me a square meter by square meter. it's hard work, it's not clear at all where the stories about some kind of encirclement are coming from really issue. i have the large box, moot will not be taken to morrow, but because there is heavy resistance. it's grinding. the meat grinder is working on new product despite the ferocity of fighting back mod isn't considered a game changer in the small military. analysts say the city holds more symbolic than strategic importance, but it's important. none the less, it's capture would give the kremlin and much needed victory after months of setbacks and give its troops and you foretold in the dawn best region which the

russians partially occupy, but one full control off for keith and its trips back moot hold emotional value a stomach, the bottle mifflin, and nobody will give a battle to mobile ski will fight for as long as we can or more bottled, we consider back loot or fortran lasher for the day. we consider people who died their hero's little vicki, them follow missouri. good. of course the city is more than just a prize and battle for back most people. it was home. yet you husband, the hooded. dear god, our town used to be so beautiful. there were roses everywhere, flowers it. oh, it was clean, everything was kept in order. it's a memory that stands in stark contrast to scenes like this. and the bloody battles

that have earned back moot it's gruesome name. nato secretary general again stole to vex as member states have made new pledges to provide ukraine with heavy weapons and military training. they've also agreed to ramp up production of ammunition later. defense ministers are meeting for a 2nd day in brussels. there's no new agreement on increasing defense spending, but mr. stalls burks as things are finally moving in the right direction. united states france have signed contracts with those older laws of germany in norway under all soldiers who are all designed complex with the defense industry. meaning that production is not not ramping up on the on, on that this makes a huge difference. the production for instance, some or killer sales to one phone. 1.5 is no increasing. and that enables to a bowl february, replenish our own stalks, which we have depleted, but also to continue to broad supporter to,

to ukraine. i corresponded terry schultz has been following the summit. welcome at terry. i'm so what nato promising to do in order to speed up this medicaid for you crime what nato really needs to do is to have allied governments signed contracts with weapons manufacturers and not just talk about it. and we've learned over the last few days that despite all of the pledges to ramp up production, that they in fact haven't put money on the table with the manufacturers. and so there's no incentive for private companies to expand their production lines to add workers to add training until they're certain that they're going to have a long term perspective on increasing, they're increasing their production and that seems to be happening now. i did. germany announced yesterday that it had signed a new contract with ryan metals who to produce more ammunition there. and other countries are having to look at their own production lines and, and find more creative ways to, to reverse that many years of, of declining production in ammunition for example, which is really

a key need right now. but nato has, it has a pledge to coordinate this as secretary general stilton berg says, this is now a race for logistics and speed will save lives. right. one of the other big challenges for nato countries seems to be supplying ukraine with military equipment while maintaining their own ability to defend themselves and how they're handling that. that's right. many countries have expressed concern that if they send everything out of their own cupboards, then they won't have anything to defend themselves. nato has standards at which stockpiles are meant to be kept, but secretary general silverberg has said, let's forget about those for now and send everything you can to ukraine because ukraine is fighting to keep the russians away from our own territory. so this is really the priority for them. now at the same time, you can't leave yourself without any, any homeland defense. and that's another one of the reasons why they really need to increase production because 1st of all, send it to ukraine. second of all,

back fill your own, your own stockpiles, right? understand dollars. they're also discussing potential changes to national defense budgets. that's right. they need to come up with a new framework for how much nato wants them to spend. we all know, of course, following germany about the 2 percent that germany has not been spending and all, all nato countries are supposed to spend 2 percent of their g d peace on their own . defense, nato is now expanding, is so many of the things that it does that it says this is expensive, you know, it's put for new battle groups in southeastern states and, and just with it, with the threats that they say are the new normal is going to cost a lot more and so the 2 percent is now expected to be seen as a floor of spending and not at the ceiling. and this pledge expires in 2024. and so nato will come up with a new formula for how much it would like to see government spend on their own

militaries. ok, thank you. back to the territory shells in brussels. i'm mike martinson, military analyst and senior fellow at kings colored show london. welcome back to date of the like, latest reports re outside russian showings intensifying, and that ukrainian forces have blown up a bridge as they retreat. does this mean that the momentums currently with russia? i think the bridge that you're talking about is, is to the west of moot, and it's on one of the major supply routes running into the city. this is the city that the russians have been trying to take for the last 6 or 7 months. and it does actually a pain now that they may be on the verge of some success that you obviously don't blow up your own supply lines unless you're planning to retreat. so it looks like the ukrainians maybe planning an organized, withdrew from bottom right. and so has this russian spring offensive,

but we've heard so much about that now. begun has, i think actually began about 5 days or a week ago, not just in bad moods, which we've just been talking about. also in the northeast incremental and the south invalid are as well. at the moment it's only in the russians are making any kind of progress. it's been a bit of a disaster in the south, in philadelphia, them and coming in and made no progress. but in all 3 sectors in the east, the russians are starting to push forward and it seems to me to be linked to the announcements of increased nato arms deliveries. right now. this, this morning. britain's defense factory said he estimated 97 percent of the russian army is now in ukraine, which seems like an awful lot i saw as reports as well. i'm assuming that that's been misquoted or misreported. russia has normally of a 1000000 people plus $2000000.00 reserves. 970000 troops there on

970000 russian troops in the crane. perhaps he was talking about 97 percent of the operations ready for something like that. but russia has about 202300000 troops and ukraine. nowhere near the previous figures, right. but so does that, did by your estimates and there's a rush. i have the resources and manpower to sustain a large scale and very offensive. well, what we're seeing now is very interesting because it's, it's a model of what, what's going to carry on, which is basically infantry way the tax. russia has manpower, has lots of manpower. and even though it's been the losing a 100 a day, some of the estimates it can sustain those last rights for 6 months a year, a long time. but russia is not going to win with those tactics. and here's why. because why she's not able to do the logistics and specifically maneuver logistics . and what i mean by that is moving around the battlefield, tens,

hundreds of kilometers and then being able to apply forces 100 kilometers away, rushes unable to do that. so it's only able to fight this very slow grinding infantry star warfare is not going to take the train with those type of tactics. ok, it's all about logistics at that stage because of course that dates are allies, are talking about the fact that there is a chance of that they run out of ammunition because the ukraine is using it up faster than it can be produced. so it sounds like russia is having similar sorts of problems in different areas. absolutely, i think russia has a good level of supply, but it's not able to do that last bit to move on the battlefield. ukraine has a slightly different problem. it's part of the logistics of better, but of course there is this, as you just said, you know, like timing, getting stuff from all the supplying nations. ultimately, all was become about logistics. and what we're seeing here is ukraine,

blunting the russian to try attacks. that's why it's crying out more ammunition in order to do that. and then we will see in the next month or 2, the heavy weapons, the tanks, the artillery, the infantry fighting vehicles that the west is a native. we'll start seeing those come on line. and that's when we'll see you can encounter offensive as ever very clear. thank you so much for talking to mike martin from kings collision we will get some more stories making that headlines around the world. the a scotlands 1st minister nicholas sturgeon is stepping down scottish national party leader took office in november 2014. soon after an independence referendum in which government voted to remain part of the u. k. a scotlands longest serving leader admittedly biased in new zealand. at least 4 people are dead and more than 200000 without power after cycling, gabrielle hit with arches of declared a national state of emergency. torrential rain triggered to flooding landslides

that destroyed roads into other infrastructure, st. abbas ellen mosques, as the end of this year, would be a good time to find someone else to run the company. and i was in december that he would resign as chief executive days before that he'd run a twitter pole in which a majority vote for him to step down. to syria and turkey and 42 year old woman has been rescued a week and a half after the earthquakes in those countries. she was trapped under a collapse building to the city of catherine man mara's took his present wretched type. irma has promised to continue rescue efforts despite dwindling chances of finding survivors. of the number of people are known to have died in both countries has risen to more than 4 or 40000 humanitarian aid has been slow to reach parts of syria, which has been fighting the civil war for more than a decade. the deal reached by the united nations and the syrian government means

assistance is now getting through health is finally on its way within hours of the you and negotiating a deal with the government and damascus to open the border crossings between takia northwest in syria. this international 8 convoy is heading straight on 3 the earthquake devastated parts of the opposition held region in syria, and also damaged the road to the only border crossing that had been approved for un a deliveries. 8 workers can now deliver more shell to materials, blankets and medical supplies. i am now you're an article in senior border. we just log in to fast with that reproductive magazine as lisa tracking parking. now we're not, we're celia, and they will deliberately slice $170.00 proceedings. the u. n. is also launching

a 397000000 dollar appeal to help nearly 5000000 people affected by the earthquake and syria. as the hope of finding people trapped alive under rubble in turkey and syria is dimming, rescue efforts are shifting their focus on to helping survivors. this war ship docked on the south coast of turkey has been turned into a floating hospital. there is no available hospital in my neighbourhood. the closest one is the hot. i thought you all hospital, but it's full of people injured by the quiet. that's why they can't provide help to people like me with slight injuries. instead of that hospital, we prefer this makes shift one tens of thousands of people have been injured by the earthquake in turkey. many requiring medical treatment with only 300 beds. the war ship hospital can only relieve a small part of the current huge strain on the turkish health care system. a major

technical difficulties are germany's love cancer airline, of course, disruption for thousands of passengers around the world. the company has delayed and canceled hundreds of flights after its i t systems were hit by a glitch affecting checking and boarding problems caused massive disruption at jim's biggest airport and lufthansa, main hub thats frankfurt at landing as were suspended with authority. say it traffic is now returning to norma as join our reporter kamesha sack santa who's act frankfurt airport to welcome what's going on there. now site, i'm at the ad for just in front of the departure dominos, and are behind me. there is a board and you can see there are still flights either, either showing, canceled or, or delayed. and this is a system via

a problem which the airline is facing due to a problem in that id systems. and many people here who are stranded are telling me that they have had, have been waiting long hours for the fight, stood as you ought to be told, an alternate way to resume their flights. now, frankfurt airport is a major flight a destination. it's also a place where many flights a people basically take connecting flights. and for that reason many people have not been taking those flights and they are stranded here. ok, so that is, there has been a, not those records behind me, people on the yard, the ground staff of the airline is really trying to make sure that people are reach or they take any alternate routes either at the, at the air traffic control has also did out, did some of these slides through the big airports like the munich or known or

dazzled off airport. but the situation is, is still that the disruption is still continuing here. right. and what's the cause of the disruption? what caused the fire? well the company's saying that that they'd have been a system wide id problem and they do to work construction at at the deal. we are lions are they have dis dub dub up the glass optic internet lines. and that has been the reason why the internet has been down and what not. we were not able to access the technology systems because of that. and you know, there was people also who would on twitter, what i say it was telling and writing that the boarding pass is what you should do . them in pen and paper in the morning to day. ah, but right now the disruption still continue. the company saying that internet of

will be restored it due to the data and odd the flight should flight should as you on the internet, problems should be resumed by evening on wednesday. thank you for that. a conscious sucks on suck santa, at from ford apple. so of today's a storage around the world will start from united states where the white house says it has no evidence. 33 flying objects shot down by us jets were linked to china or foreign spine. national security council spokesman john kirby says they could be connected to commercial or research efforts like these are separate to the chinese balloon. a shot down earlier. broad look at the phenomena. a service has been held in parkland of florida to mount me. the 5th anniversary of a school shooting in which 17 people were killed, president biden as repeated his demand for lawmakers to act against what he called americas, gun violence epidemic in that direction. again, for me,

you are some buster to the year you end nikki haley as an, as she's running for the republican presidential nomination next year. she's the 2nd content to join the rice after her former osx president. man, donald trump hope from the officials in britain of removed part of a new work by the graffiti artist bank, saint re installation highlights of public domestic violence. the local authorities cleared away elements of the artwork saying it was blocking the pavement. a 1915th house, fife, with a swollen eye and a broken doot, but with a smile on her face. shoving a man into a freezer, an empty beer bottle, and a frank man. this artwork in southeast england to fix the issue of domestic violence. create the bonds. he has called it all valentine's day mascara. then starvation was set up, especially on valentine sleep, to short the tragic lives of some women in a romantic relationship. i think it's amazing. i think it is

a real topic that people can talk about about domestic abuse. i think the reference to valentine's day as well, you know, it's bringing people in, it's going to open up that dialogue the freezer and at the materials were liter removed by the local council. the more it went on, the more it felt like it was part of the piece and perhaps the, you know, bank the intended that all along. because we all know how hard is to get on a district councils come and collect our set a day that quickly with pretty impressive, the local government. these efforts will be made to ensure that artwork is preserved. we take you back to the earthquake in turkey and syria, we can talk to a journalist or oma out, bam, who's in it live in a north west? syria. oh, welcome to d w. m houses situation. i've been developing their. ringback hi, the people in the area the lights.

ready only from buddies stone. busy busy the ball was out the home the they are saying the people are trying to. busy busy busy find a ride from the syria on the from another place. okay, so so aid is now arriving from one thing that is wrong with this new

invite called was a got you and some good news. busy from the com and it is not needed. right so so more is needed more and more expected. yes. but the people who need a lot of help on this is not enough for all people here because a lot of places. okay, thank you so much for joining us. thanks for that. i oma, alabama northwest soon. thank you. policies for the quality of the song. a rio de janeiro is gearing up for his 1st full scale,

a carnival since the pandemic or some celebration. so went ahead last year in brazil. rayos famous st parts were canceled. our organizers reckoned the festivities. i got a bait of the biggest party on the planet. ah, it's been described as the reaper thin rio i did neighborhoods rides across the city. oh, the sounds and colors of carnival are back. ah, this year sees the full return of the world's biggest policy including the cities, epic, st. glucose, that mafia, unofficial launch, your carnival. hundreds have been authorized after being bans due to the curb pandemic in 2022. and there's much to celebrate. allow in this carnival, what we need is to be happy. throw yourself in happiness, huck. people at the stake,

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