ah ah ah ah, this is d w. news live from berlin. nato promises more military assistance for ukraine alliance has member states a staffing of production of artillery shells, but there's no agreement. tom, increasing overall defense spending. also on the program 9 days into syria and turkey's earthquake disaster, damascus agrees a deal with the un to allow aid into some serious worst affected areas.

ah, i'm fil gail. welcome to the program. nato secretary general, yet stalson burke's as member states have made new pledges to provide ukraine way for heavy weapons and military training. they took defense. many sis have been meeting for a 2nd day in brussels. there's been no new agreement on increasing overall defense spending. but mr. stalsen burke says our lives have agreed to ramp up production of ammunition and artillery shells. united states france have signed the contracts of those older laws of germany in norway under all soldiers who have all the signed contracts with the defense industry. meaning that the production is not not ramping up on the, on that this make a huge difference. the production, for instance, some artillery shells the one phone,

155 is no increasing. and that enables to both for brooklyn is our own socks, which we have depleted, but also to continue to broad supporter to, to ukraine. la corresponding terry shorts and process has been following those talks as to what nato's promising to speed up military aid 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, 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 improving how nato is doing. right. i've another of the challenges for nato countries seems to be supplying ukraine with military equipment while maintaining their own stock 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 front line. 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, 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 talk us to 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 sign process. a consortium of investigative reports a says it's exposed a group of israeli contractors who claim to have manipulated more than 30 elections around the world. and forces accused a group of former military officers and secret agents co named a team. jorge of using hacking, sabotage and fake news to influence election campaigns for more than 20 years. he's also accused of manipulating a public opinion for intelligence agencies, political campaigns, and private companies. laura russia is

a journalist and founder of forbidden store is the team that broke the story. a welcome to the w. let's start with more about this group and the work you say they do. yes, i thank you for why i think the so as you, as you have to this is a global collaborative project who are coaching the work of what a gentleman was killed as she wasn't for me. she was investigating this information industry and we'd be done stories and why don't are driven as we continue to work. and one part of the team was investigating one private company based in israel. that is, evolve in many places in the nation, hacking politicians and spreading this information. and what we have been able to discover is how these 2 of these information is a, is a danger for democracy. and how they i able to with the help of technology is very

advanced to in 3 payments. ok, so, so could you give us an example of how they have influenced a particular election in the world? well, we know that they were evil. so the name of that team is coal cima. that says the, the nick name they gave to the group of those that it's where the some of them were, it just people and they, they did take fall, for instance, during the contraction to review the reporting. they show all reporters how they were able to park south, if you chance 0, close a to somebody the sure it's very exposed and to, and to get into the account of that to the gram account. and they were, they pretend to be involved in the presidential campaign selection where they were having some contracts with all these or political partner.

and so, and we knew that. so the guy that is leading that was sort of a, from a constructor of cambridge, america. and was involved in so many tradition of are all the election before in it. listen, this is one thing to say, i mean i could for instance say that i have elections and i have influenced outcomes. how do they convince you that those weren't just empty boasts well, once we so we were able to fact check what they're. busy saying looks entirely not, not everything there were 3 tenzing, but some of the, some of the things that they were showing are you able to fact that's one example, that's these guy whole, hey, it was at some point doing some actually live in front of it. and he was

taking control of the sitting norma count of one person and, and sending a text the stage from the 3 kind of that 1st. and then our team was able to construct them the 1st and to say to see if he was able to conceal that he was cracked and then some messages were sent from him on the icons. and he was able to confirm that. so another thing that we were able to investigate all the calls and bolts, they control the kind of all meal trolls. 30000 people people does not exist and we were able to print, investigate them and to see an underlies that, that's kind of all me. so he has an attitude when ruled in more than 20 intern shill campaigns to for private or sometimes corporate interest and for the time

from okay. ok so so what you, what you have established as you, as you speak to us so far is that there is a group of base people who can get into people who can hack databases. who can had people telegram account. have you been able to establish that they have actually influence the outcome of elections? why did its house with service to the upcoming what they did in kenya, for instance, what were not as they were working for and finally, they didn't achieve their goal. so actually the tried and they didn't see it other things. what so and where they were able to succeed in transfer instance, they were in that they were able to ask some people inside of the french each

other or the host of a tv program was reading some news and they were adding a connection meter them both of that very famous tv show and friends, and then the campaign. this was the campaign. this one was very successful. so not all of the camps were something that we're able to run can see him. some of them. yeah. what definitely. thank you so much for joining us and sharing with us laura risha off the from a forbidden stores. thanks so much. it's all stores are making headlines around the world. was out in italy where a court is acquitted of former prime minister silvio berlusconi, of bribing witnesses in a trial related to his notorious bunger bunger parties with young women is accused of paying, guessed to lie a previous trials. obligation surrounded the parties, which mr. berman scone maintains were elegant dennis of duct tape, figures,

ravaged returned to normal germany, the biggest busiest airport to frankfort after an i t finally called major disruptions. the german airline. lufthansa says a systems fault affecting it's checking and boarding systems was to blame. company says, brought to railway engineering works at damaged or broadband cables. causes scotlands 1st minister nicholas sturgeon, a stepping down scottish national party leader took office in november 2014. soon after an independence referendum in which scotland voted to remain part of the u. k . i certainly scotland, longest serving lead admittedly biased maternity earthquakes in turkey and syria where the number of people and now known to have died in both countries, has risen at to more than 40000 humanitarian aid has been slow to breach parts of syria, which has been fighting civil war for more than a decade. the new deal between the u. m and the syrian government means assistance is now finally getting through help is finally on its way

within hours of the you and negotiating a deal with the government and damascus to a pin t border crossings between turkey and northwestern. syria. this international aid convoy is heading straight on through the earthquake devastated parts if the opposition held legion 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, blankets, and medical supplies, i am now jani, added in senior order. we just log into fax. we that reproductive magazine as lies at digital transaction parking. now we're not where she is. yes. and they, we did ye berkeley slice $170.00. perceiving little 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 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 and turkey. many requiring medical treatment with only 300 beds. the warship hospital can only relieve a small part of the current huge strain on the turkish health care system. and

a quick reminder of our top story this, our nato defense ministers suffer, met for a 2nd day in brussels to coordinate arms supplies for you've cried. cave says victory could depend on speedy deliverance. next, on the w at news asia, we've been rash foundry. i'll be back at the top of the. i'm good with journalism help us in overcoming divisions. save the date for the d. w. global media forum 2023 in bonn, germany and increasingly frag.