a slow in february on d, w. ah, ah, this is the w news live from, but i learned about back mo, to in the eastern ukraine, is now the longest stand off in this war with russia and ukraine determined to take the city despite heavy casualties. also on the program nature chief, you installed in burke outlines new pledges for ukraine, including heavy weapons and military training and ass member states to ramp up ammunition production 9 days into syria and to craig disaster to moscow agrees

a deal with the un to allow aid into some serious last effect today. on germany, south flag carry, i love tanza grounds. hundreds of flights because of a major i t problem and traffic controllers. a diversion all planes away from its main hub at frank. apple. ah, i'm feel gale. welcome to the program. moscow is intensifying its efforts to take back more to net easton, you cray. russian troops have been selling more than 20 towns and villages in the area, making it the longest running battle of the war. and they say the victory is not strategically important, but victory would be symbolic. ukraine and russia both determined to prevail, travelling at some different game was hung to draw us up. again. this is the

glimpse, according to russian state td acts like. it's a difficult time at the moment with our boys keep standing their ground clear at all, where the stories about some kind of encirclement are coming from you really issue i have turned the luggage back. moot will not be taken to morrow, but because there is heavy resistance. it's grinding. the meat grinder is working new bad old guy. 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 nonetheless, it's capture would give the kremlin and much needed victory after months of setbacks ant, give its troops and youth are told in the don best region, which the russians partially occupy, but want full control off for kids and it's trips back moved hold emotional value

was gumera gumaro explaining nobody will give up battle to mobile ski will fight for as long as we can or more boxes, we consider back loot or fortran last year for the day. we consider people who died their heroes little vicki, them follow missouri roy of course the city is more than just a prize in battle for back most people. it was heim. yes, you husband the hood. dear god, our town used to be so beautiful. there were roses everywhere, flowers. he 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 and back mood. it's great. some name rochelle, in back was you said to be intensifying a better reports of ukrainian forces,

blowing up a bridge as they retreated. so does that mean the momentum currently with russia? i asked military analyst and senior fellow kings college london. mike martin. i think the bridge that you're talking about is, is to the west of moods, 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. you obviously don't blow up your own supply lines unless you're planning to retreat. so it looks like the ukrainians may be planning an organized withdraw from battle. right. and so has this russian spring offensive that we've heard so much about has that now begun? it has, i think actually began about 5 days or a week ago, not just in bad moods, which we just been talking about. also in the northeast incremental and the south

in invalid are as well. at the moment it's only in by the russians are making any kind of progress. it's been a bit of a disaster in the south in philadelphia, them and come in and it made no progress. but in all 3 sectors in the east, the russians have started 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 up 270000 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. so does that do by your estimates and does the russia 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 wave attacks. 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 rates 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. so 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 nato 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 from miss butterfield logistics a 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, we'll take the heavy weapons, the tanks, the artillery, the infantry fighting vehicles that the west is. and i will start seeing those come

online. that's when we'll see you can encounter things as ever very clear. thank you. so much for talking to that mike martin from kings congress, london, or nato secretary general, you installed some book, suspend the states, have made new pledges to provide ukraine with heavy weapons and military training. they've also agreed to ramp up production of ammunition. nato defense ministers are meeting for a 2nd day in brussels. there's no new agreement on increasing defense spending happens to salt and books that things are moving in the right direction. united states, france have signed contracts, but also all the allies of germany in norway on there are also holders for all the signed contracts with the defense industry. meaning that production is not not ramping up, and that is making a huge difference. the production for instance, artillery shells the 11155 is now increasing. and that enables to both replenish our own stocks, which we have depleted,

but also to continue to broad supporter to ukraine. i mean, well, us defense secretary lloyd austin has praised ukraine's armed forces and said the west support for keith would not falter almost a year after lectures. imperial invasion of ukraine made all is more unified and more resolute than ever. we are determined to stand with ukraine's brave to finish, for as long as the turks. and we are also determined to protect every inch of made or territory. foolish flagrant aggression has changed the security environment for every member of the salon and 4 countries around the world. a sooner corresponding tele shoots in brussels. well that's a meeting is taking place. so welcome, terry. what's nato promising? you know, to speed up this military aid for you, cry. nato is,

is really trying to ramp up production of ammunition, which is seen as, as a key necessity right now, as, as you mentioned, the supplies are running low. we don't make that ammunition as fast as ukraine is using it up. so this is really seen as one of the, the things that is needed fast. and this is something that they've also been talking about for quite some time and haven't moved as quickly as, as they should have done. now they're starting to sign contracts with weapons manufacturer, something that hadn't been done quickly. and this is something that stilton berg says. we'll truly make it make a big difference on the battlefield and they've also been discussing how to get the tanks and especially spare parts. they're more quickly, there's been some lag between the promises that they would be getting tanks and the delivery of these tanks. so this is something that, you know, ukraine counts by the hours and ally sort of were counting by the months how long it will take. so there's been some disappointment there. but in fact, this meeting here,

the last couple of days has really been about about the logistics and to improving how nato is doing. right. another of the challenges for nato countries seems to be supplying ukraine with military equipment while maintaining their own stocks from their own ability to defend themselves, how they're handling that issue. that's true, that nato has standards for how much nations need to keep in their stockpiles for their own defenses and to support other allies in, in case of, of an attack on somewhere else in nato territory. now what secretary general silverberg has said is that those standards can be relaxed now because the priority should be to give you crane all the equipment possible, especially those countries on the frontline, the baltic states, poland. they very much see this battle in ukraine as one step away from them. so they've been giving extraordinary amounts of equipment to thinking that you know, the ukrainians can use our bullets other otherwise we will have to when the

russians come here. so this has been, there's been a big difference geographically between the attitude countries have but what nato has said is that they will replenish countries. own stocks send, which you can't ukraine as quickly as possible under talker. so the discussions on potential changes to national defense budgets. what about that's right. everyone has, has heard the complaints about countries not spending 2 percent of their g, d, p on their own militaries. and, and, you know, most countries don't, most nato countries don't do that yet. but this, this pledge which was made in wales is expires in 2024. and so nato wants to come up with a new formula about how much country should spend on their defense in order to keep nato's capacity at its maximum level. so that's where the discussions are now. they didn't intend to make a decision today, but rather at the summit in vilnius in july. but this is a very touchy topic for,

for many countries, including termini. of course, thank about her social set and process is look at some more stories of making headlines around the world will start in the united states where the white house says it has no evidence that 3 flying objects shut down by us jets are linked to china or foreign spying national security council spokesman john kirby said they could be connected to commercial or research efforts. the objects are separate to the chinese balloon that was shot down a 1st scotland 1st minister nicholas sturgeon, a stepping down scottish national party leader took office in november 2014. soon after an independent referendum which got them voted to remain part of the u. k. she says scotlands longest serving leader in new zealand, at least 4 people at dad and more than 200000 without power. after psycho gabrielle hit authorities of declared a national state of emergency,

torrential rain triggered flooding, landslides that destroyed roads and other infrastructure. as twitter basil on masks as the end of this year would be a good time to find someone else to run. the company announced in december that he would resign this chief executive days before that you've got a twitter pole, which a majority vote for him to step down. a 42 year old woman has been found alive a week and a half after the earthquakes in turkey and syria. she was trapped under collapse building in the turkey city. from man mars countries president reggie type heard, one has promised that rescue efforts will continue despite the dwindling prospects of finding more survivors. the number of people know to have died in both countries is no reason to more than 40000 humanitarian aid has been slow to reach parts of syria, which has been fighting a civil war for more than a decade. the deal reach back by the united nations and the syrian government means assistance is now getting through help is finally on its way ha,

within hours of you and negotiating a deal with the government and damascus to open to border crossings between turkey and northwest and syria, this international aid convoy is heading straight on through the earthquake devastated parts of the opposition held legion 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 here we are the article in cedar border. we just log in to fax. we that reproductive magazine, s license transaction parking. now we're not where she reacts and they will deliberately slice $170.00 receiving diesel. d 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 neighborhood. the closest one is the hot. i thought you all hospital, but it's full of people injured by the quaking it. 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 and turkey. many requiring medical treatment with only 300 beds. the worship hospital can only relieve a small part of the current, huge strain on the turkish health care system. hello. yeah, correspondent,

julia han, talk to sue the situation at a camp in the turkey city of adama. or what we're seeing now are the final hours of the rescue efforts. although turkish tv channels are still broadcasting, images of people being pulled from the rebel alive. these are very few cases. at the same time, tens of thousands of people have been killed and hundreds of thousands are now homeless. and yes, the focus is now on this massive humanitarian crisis. according to the turkish authorities, more than 270000 people have been evacuated from this earthquake hid region. everyone else has been staying intense like these one here. you can see right behind me for the costa week here in atlanta in this can people tell me that they're getting everything they need right now, but the situation is so much worse in cities like her mom mirage is kendra on or on

takia where we were yesterday that city has been almost entirely flattened. many people still have to sleep outside in the open. they need heating, they need shelter, they need sanitation, i jenny products because they have been left with absolutely everything with absolutely nothing, no harm. and so kentucky and major technical difficulties at germany. lufthansa, airline, of course, disruption for thousands of passengers around the world company delight and cancel hundreds of flights after its i. t systems were hit by glitch affecting checking and forwarding problem calls massive disruption at frankl frankfurt airport. germany said busiest and the loft, hansa, sub main hub. landings were suspended, but of far to say, traffic is now returned to no well, our reporter concha suck santa is welcome attention of what's going on.

so the company white systems have now been resumed and i was speaking to the airline press officer before and they said the fullest lufthansa, flights have now flown off to resolving the issue of what was a massive disruption of national and international flights head at the frankfurt airport, i'm just at the departure lounge yard and they're still many people who are still stamps stranded from earlier today and they will, they are being held by the ground staff to lead out their identities. domestic travelers are being given, train passes and international transit passengers. now this is a major transit hop for us in asian, an air traffic. so those, those have been also, they had also been resumed. the air traffic controller, earlier in the day was read outing. the flight from here to munich took an on to dozen golf and other places, but as of now they are us that the press office at la danza has told me that they

had resuming the flights again. and the fullest flights have actually taken off after the disruption was a, was that solution was found and the chickens have resumed again. and what was the original problem the original problem was actually in our company, wide id failure due to what the company's seeing is. the domain network provider do i to telecom sir, ah, glass fi, bulky was which were destroyed, which were damaged during a real construction work. ah, that was taking place. and that was the reason why the systems were down from the morning to day on wednesday. and they were expecting back to her at all to be resolved by the evening today, which is now taking place. and the systems are back up are the, the flights are leaking back again. ah, but as you and as you know the of tanza is this is a me to hop for lufthansa, airlines. it not only operates, it also operates other carriers like the ah,

the austrian airways and all the udall wings, which is a commercial low cost of flyer that also has flights thrown from this airport. so there was a massive disruption people were stranded here. some are still trying to, ah, find the next flights out of a frankfurt airport. you. thank you for that. a consciousness oksana and frank frank apple onto the u. k. and where officials are removed, part of a new work by the graffiti artist banksley. the insulation highlights the problems of domestic violence, but the local authority has cleared away. amendments of the onward st 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 pleaser and empty be aborted and frank ben, this artwork in southeast england to fix the issue of domestic violence create de

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for his 1st full scale carnival since the pandemic, or some celebrations went to had last year in brazil, barrios, fine. mr. st. parties were canceled. now organize this. i reckon those festivities festivities are going to be the biggest party on the planet. ah, it's been described as the reaper thin rio and neighborhoods rides across the city. oh, the sounds and colors of carnival ah, back. ah! this year sees the full return of the world's biggest party including the cities, epic, st. glucose, that mac, the unofficial launch your carnival. hundreds have been authorized after being bans due to the cobit pandemic in 2022. and there's much to celebrate, allowed in this carnival. what we need is to be happy. throw yourself in happiness

. huck. people at the stake. lay down some a lot. i think that politically this year is special. not only because of the pandemic, but also because you've had the victory of a left wing government. i keep asking myself, what would become of this carnival if it were not to this picture of a left wing governments? but for rio's world famous somber schools, there's no time for dancing just yet for months. now, artisans, welders, and so as i've been working long hours to have everything ready for the main parade, acoustically you thought missy lucy believe in this romantic carnival? he has, he that they see on television, the greatest show on earth buckler is all about passion, where, oh gosh, we're moving to see, but it's also a lot of hard work and be more of all than a year for a bible yet. did god do my new one?

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