ah ah ah, this is dw, live from berlin, nato promises more military assistance for ukraine. the alliance says member states are stepping up production of artillery shells, but there's no agreement on increasing overall defense spending. also on the program, the battle for back move in easton, ukraine becomes the longest stand off in the war so far. both sides are determined

to take the city despite heavy casualties. 9 days into syria and turkey's earthquake disaster, damascus agrees a deal with the un to allow aid into some serious worst affected adams and gets ready to roll out the red carpet for its annual international film festival. the top of the usual glitz and glamour, movies and events supporting ukraine and the protests in iraq. ah, i'm feel gale. welcome to the program. nato secretary general. yeah, i'm stolen. burke says, member states have made new pledges to provide ukraine, breathed heavy weapons and military training. they took, defense ministers have been meeting for a 2nd day in brussels. there's been no new agreement on increasing overall defense spending, but mr. dalton, burke says eyes have agreed to ramp up production of ammunition and artillery

shells. united states france have signed contracts with those older allies of germany in norway on there are also olders who have all designed complex with the defense industry. meaning that the production is not not ramping up on the on, on that this makes a huge difference. the production for instance, some artillery shells, the one phone, 155 is now increasing. and that enables to both abbreviate, replenish our own stocks, which we have depleted, but also to continue to prod, supporter to, to ukraine and u. s. defense. as secretary lloyd austin has prized ukraine's armed forces and said the west support for, keith would not falter almost a year after russia's imperial invasion of ukraine. nato is more unified and more resolute than ever. we are determined to stand with ukraine's brave

defenders. for as long as the turks and we're also determined to protect every inch of nato territory. potent flagrant aggression has changed the security environment for every member of this alliance. and for countries around the world. they w correspondent, terry shoulds in brussels, has been following those talks, asked her what nato is promising in order to speed up military aid for ukraine. 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 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 would 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 improving how nato is doing. right. another of the challenges for nato contra seems to be supplying ukraine with military equipment while maintaining their own stocks from their own ability to defend themselves, how they're handling radishi. 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 case of of an attack on somewhere

else in nato territory. now what secretary general stilton berg 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. 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 germany, of course, about her social side and process. the more moscow's intensifying its efforts to take back lot in eastern ukraine. russian troops have been showing more than 20 towns and villages in the area, making it the longest running battle of the war. analysts say the cities not strategically important, but victory would be symbolic. and ukraine and russia both determined to prevail. trans coupling as i'm different game was one love to draw subdued lumps. this is

a glimpse according to russian state, tedi into watts, become known as the meat grinder. with over the city of blackmore has been nicknamed to such because neither the russians nor the ukrainians have been able to make much progress here. resulting in a breach of stalemate that produce the longest battle of the war. and one of the bloodiest for all the sides 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 to feel that one day it's their artillery. on the next day they're infantry attacks. so it's a difficult time at the moment, but our boys keep standing their ground with the battlefield 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 still has been read nor pushing forward house by house me. a square meter by square meter is 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 just the large box moved will not be taken to morrow, but because there is heavy resistance. it's grinding. the meat grinder is working on new bottle. ah, despite the ferocity of fighting back, maud isn't considered a game changer in the small military. analysts say the city hold small symbolic then strategic importance. but it's important, nonetheless, 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 troops back moot hold emotional value was done what the wall nissan and nobody will give a battle to mobile ski will fight for as long as we can imo board, we consider back loot or fortran lasher for the day. we consider people who died their heroes at all. um follow nasa. good, of course the city is more than just a prize in battle for back most people. it was home. yeah, you husband the hood. dear god, our town used to be so beautiful. there were roses everywhere, flowers you put it. oh, i see 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 mood. it's gruesome name is i'll get some more stories, making that headlines around the world will start in italy. we're a court is acquitted. former prime minister silvio berlusconi, of bribing witnesses in a trial related to is notorious for the bunker parties when young women was accused of paying, guessed to lie at previous trials. allegations surrounded the parties, which mister berlusconi maintains were elegant. dennis and they've dogged him for years traffic has returned to normal at germany's busiest airport, frankfurt after, and i t failure, of course, major disruption germany and i love kansas as a systems fault affecting it's checking and boarding systems to blame. company says botched railway engineering works and damaged a broadband cables. homes of scotland 1st minister nicholas sturgeon, stepping down. the scottish national party leader took office in november 2014 soon after independence referendum,

which scotland voted to remain part of the u. k. the sturgeon is scotland, longest serving leader. my admittedly, a 42 year old woman has been found alive a week and a half after the earthquakes in turkey and syria. she was at chopped under a collapsed building in the turkish city of carmel. barras, a turkish president, reggie type erd one has promised that rescue efforts will continue, despite the dwindling prospects of finding more survivors. the number of people who are known to have died in both countries has risen to more than 40000 monetary. an aide has been slow to reach parts of syria, which has been fighting a civil war for more than a decade. but a deal reached by the un and the syrian government means assistance is now getting through help is finally on its way ha, within hours of the 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 region in syria, and also damage the road to the only border crossing that had been approved for un a deliveries 8 workers can now deliver more shell to materials blanket and medical supplies, i am now you re on the article in senior order. just log in to fax. we, reproductive magazine as license transacting parking. now we're not, we're cd and they, we did emergency slice 170 s u t o 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 will 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 hats. i thought you all hospital, but it's full of people injured by the quite a bit. 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. here in berlin organizers are getting ready to roll out the red carpet for the cities, annual international film festival, known as the bell. and on top of the usual glitz and glamour,

this string of movies and events in solidarity with ukraine and the protests in iran. the berlin allah is back after 2 scale down additions this february. it's back to business for one of the world's biggest film festival. and one of the german capitals, greatest cultural jewels. the organizers are pulling out all the stops to get filled lovers of their couches and industry players out of home office artistic director carlo shats the all says this year's festival received more film entries than ever before. maybe in the last 2 additions, some companies order off their films, or it also may be dirt the result of the fact that after 2 years, many companies, many filmmakers wanted and want to be back and be part of this great celebration of cinema. hollywood will be well represented with actress kristin stewart, heading the international jury. she'll be joined by

a host of stars on the red carpet. besides the glamour in the berlin allah has always engage to with the real world and this year is no exception. last year's festival ended days before russia's invasion of ukraine and lis, 73rd berliner is putting the country center stage. sean, penn's documentary about president zalinski superpower will have its world premiere here a to for the berlin ana. oh, so for me, this film is like the doors through which i hope the entire audience of the festival i can pass and, and then be connected without a documentary that are maybe less or now we have a films in panorama fiction and documentary. we're film some generation, we're film films in full that really provide a very wide diversified picture of what happened in cream and still happening

during the last 12 months. the festival will also feature the european premier of iron butterflies. a documentary about the shooting down of malaysia airlines flight m h. 17. largely about the current human rights protests in iran are also reflected in the line up films. premiering include 7 winters into iran, about an iranian woman who was executed for defending herself against a rapist, as well as politics and glitter for the next 10 days. all eyes will be on the gold . as 19 films from across the globe compete for the coveted golden bear and a host of other prizes. they'll be handed out a week on saturday and into berlin olive fashion. any one of them could be a winner and you have a new one. i look for you with a report from a leader, a barrow, whose lube will be one of the people bringing us that daily news from the festival at ship. glad say she's here with me. welcome her leader. so normal burden allah

service has been resumed with an extra helping of politics to reflect the current crises. while this year is the 1st year since 2020, where cinemas are expected to be packed again, there are no restrictions, no social distance thing, no test testing, and the organizers hoping the public will come back in droves. now obviously because of the political situation and also because of the timing, because last year's festival and the just days before the russian invasion, there's a particular focus here on films from or about ukraine. and also because of, you know, the protest in iran, from, or about iran. so as well as a short pens, documentary, superpower which is primary here, there are about 8 other films across the festival in different sections. i'm all about, you know, about the former and about ukraine as well as that. and about iran, we have this film that we saw in the report, 7 winters into iran, which is a powerful documentary about

a woman who was executed after she stabbed the man who is trying to rape another in german film. it was made in collaboration with her family who now actually live here in berlin. so it's particularly interesting that it's, i'm a premier in here and are we expecting a big stars issue? we are expecting stars to really come back as well as of the sean penn. we've got kristen stewart, she's heading the international jury. we also have a steven spielberg making a flying gazette to collect his ordinary golden bath for his lifetime, achievement, and will be shown the cross section of the films of his from his entire career right from the beginning to, to the present. we got cate blanchett as well coming to have for the european german premier film tal, which is already premier to other festivals. and is he too great to claim he played this female pastoral conduct. he gets involved in a b scandal. we've got your markovich coming to premiere seneca and we also have on

the 1st night that's tomorrow night for the opening film, we're hoping to see half the weight and peter dinklage on the carpet for rebecca miller. she came to me. well, i just got to do and besides politics and the stars, the house of the brother of course is the competition for the golden bear. it is of course, and they've got $900.00 films competing for the golden back on the silver bass. there's also a special documentary prize, i think the competition for that will be stiff this year because there are a lot of documentaries. so yeah, the best will be handed out on the 25th today, off the next and as usual, anything forget the price, you can never predict these things. what do you particularly looking forward to? well, that's so a filming competition called our past lives. an american film by a korean american about childhood sweethearts who kind of meet each other again, decades later, we discover them that we discover each other and they already had it's well premier

early this year at the sundance festival. and it was already talked about in january as one of the hottest tips of the whole year by critics. and i'm really looking forward to seeing now. ok. thank you so much. i, doctors, we will speak again as that about an ali gets on the way for another holiday barrow . thank you so much. so i get you up to speed on some of the other source of making . the news will start in new zealand where at least 4 people are dead and more than 200000 without power. after cycling, gabrielle hit with ours is declared, a national state of emergency threats will rain triggered flooding and land slides destroyed roads and other infrastructure. 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 as chief executive days. before that, you ran a twitter pole in which a majority voted for him to step down. a major technical difficulties at germany's loft hanser airline of course,

disruptions for thousands of passengers around the world. the company delayed and cancel hundreds of flights after its i t systems were hit by glitch effecting checking and boarding problem course. massive disruption at frankfurt airport, germany, the busiest and loved hands as main hub landings were suspended, but authority, se traffic is now returning to i report kamesha sack santa sent this update from a from ford. apple for 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 after resolving the usual. what was a massive disruption of national and international flights head at the frankfurt airport. i'm just at the departure lounge yard and there 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 an asian air traffic. so those, those have been all so they, they are also being 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. the press office at la danza has told me that they had resuming the flights again. and the fullest lights have actually taken off after the disruption was a, was that solution was found and the chickens have resumed again, what was the original problem? the original problem was actually in our, our company wide i. t failure due to what the company's seeing is. the dorman network providers die to telecom, sir, ah, glass fi,

bulky was which were destroyed, which were damaged during a really construction work. and that was sticking please. 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 beat as ordered by the evening to day, which is now taking place on the systems are back up. are the, the flights are leaking back again. ah, but as you and as you know, the fancy is this is the me to hop for lufthansa, airlines it not only operates, it also operates other carriers like the ah, the austrian airways and all the usual wings, which is a commercial low cost of flyer that also has flights drawn from this airport, so there was a massive disruption people were stranded here. some are still trying to, ah, find the next slides out off of frankfurt airport to you. thank you for that. a conscious oksana and frank apple. a rear diginero as gearing up

for it's a 1st full scale carnival since a pandemic. while some celebrations went ahead last year in brazil and rio's famous street parties were cancelled. now organizers reckon those festivities are going to be the biggest party on the planet. ah, it's been described as the reaper thin rio nodded neighborhoods rides across the city. oh, the sounds and colors of carnival aback. ah, this year sees the full return of the world's biggest posse including the cities, epic, st. glucose, them off, the unofficial launch, your carnival. hundreds have been authorized after being bans due to the cave pandemic in 2022. and there is much to celebrate. allow in this carnival,

what we need is to be happy. throw yourself in happiness, huck. people at the stake lays down some bad luck. i will, is king, that politically this year is special, not only because of the pandemic, but also because we've had the victory of a left when governments i keep asking myself, what would become of this carnival if it were not to this victory of a left when governments foot rios world famous, sam, bas goes. there is no time for dancing just yet. for months now. artisans, well doesn't. so as i've been working long hours to have everything ready, but the main parade acoustic image of the will miss the lucy believe in this romantic carnival. he has he that they see on television the greatest show on earth . buck, it's all about passion, where, oh, app boshra, nice to see, but it's also a lot of hard work and bay mood all than a year for a bio. he had the gabriella,

my hu, one and for re i shop owners, they hope the cities passion for cannibal. we'll also see, revel is spend big and help them to make up for the loss of tourism. during the pandemic, m, i have everything you need to some by the night away is on sale here with retail is expected to and more than $970000000.00 us dollars during the celebrations. is reminded by top story at this hour later defends ministers. the meeting for a 2nd day in brussels to coordinate arms supplies to ukraine. cave says victory could depend on the speed of deliverance. as his d. w still to come. the offices of the baby say in india, a search for 2nd day of asian states also time the screws on independence media

to look at why pakistan is tightening. it's all very stringent to blaspheming. but as vanity will have those stories onto more that seem not news asia in just a moment, i'll be back at the top of the hour. let me time, of course is always at d. w a dot com for news and comments around the block at d. w. good ah, ah, ah, ah, ah ah, [000:00:00;00]

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