so i think i will live long enough to witness the factory farming the great debate this week on b, w, or, oh, ah ah, this is daily news line from berlin, nato promised this more military assistance for ukraine. the alliance says member states are stepping up production of artillery shells, but there is no agreement on increasing overall defense spending. also on the program, 9 days into syria and turkey's earthquake disaster, damascus agrees

a deal with the you went to allow aid and to some of syria's worst affected area. and as a ron's economy struggles under western sanctions, it's precedent makes a rare visit to beijing and the hope of forging closer ties with china. ah, i'm nicole foolish to our viewers on p b s in the united states and all around the world. welcome to the program. made a leaders in brussels have made new pledges to provide ukraine with weapons and military training. there's been no immediate promise of more tanks and no advance on increasing overall defense spending. allies have agreed to supply more ammunition and artillery shells, but nato secretary generally in stoughton berg admits more needs to be done. it's a show of support tying to the media with nato. eliza have decided to wrap up their

weapons production for ukraine. african fans rise that ukraine is using ammunition much faster than the west is producing it. things are happening, but we need to continue. we need to step up even more because it isn't a big need out there and to provide an ukraine with ammunition. this is now becoming a grinding war or attrition on the war. attrition is a war o logistics on the, on the on. therefore this is says so crucial for our ability to ensure that ukraine wins is able to retake territory. us defense secretary light austin is optimistic that a bit darker to support. there is real chance ukraine could make 15 gains in the war for every system that we provide. we're gonna train troops on that system, but we're also gonna give him additional training on,

on maneuver on the integration of fires on sustainment and her in on maintenance. and so with that additional capability, better trained troops are platforms that can perform a lot better. and in this environment, i think they'll have a real good chance of making a pretty significant difference on a battlefield. considering future security threats to thick dugeon arched member countries to spin at least 2 percent of their gdp on defense. but no agreement was reached on no targets for over like defense spending by the name to a life. t w correspondent, irish hans and brussels has been following the talk and i asked her earlier, what exactly nato is promising in order to speed up military for ukraine. there are a lot of different things that nato needs to do, to speed up the delivery of what it's already promised to ukraine. and that's what secretary general stolz and berg was talking about. although they have known for

many months now that that ukraine was firing many more rounds of artillery bullets than could be produced, they have yet to really ramp up production on the ground here in europe, or even in the united states to meet that demand. so now they're getting really serious about it. it's, it's, you know, a shortfall that people worry, could see ukraine actually running out of ammunition. and so each country is looking at what it can do to both generate more, more production in their own companies, and also joined together. they're talking about jointly procuring ammunition now to make the orders big enough to, to entice industry to, to change production practices and make them more rapid. and one of the big challenges for nato countries seems to be supplying ukraine with military equipment while maintaining their own ability to defend themselves. how is the alliance handling this issue? this is an issue because of course nobody was prepared for

a shooting war in europe again. so once this started, they had to send a lot of these weapons that they hadn't really been stalking up on in, over past years. in fact, with ammunition which we no scaling, production thinking, it wouldn't be necessary again. so when it came to supplying ukraine secretary general stilton berg said, don't think about this as a dilemma. if you've got, if you've got an issue, send the supplies to ukraine and let's back fill our own stocks later. so he's allowed countries to, to sort of reduce the standards and what they should keep on hand for some kind of domestic emergency. and they, they're planning on replenishing those as we talk about it, scaling up the ammunition supplies. and the allies are also discussing potential changes to national defense budgets among all of this, right? that's true. i mean, all these things we're talking about cost, a lot of money more than nato was. it was prepared for when it made this 2 percent

pledge 7 years ago. that's, of course, one. this become famous in germany because germany was very slow to scale up its defense spending and has come under a lot of criticism for it. but it's certainly not the only country. so now what nato is talking about is not making 2 percent the lower thresh, the upper threshold, but rather the lower threshold. some countries are already spending 3 percent of their g, d, p on their defense. and they'd like to see other countries ramp up as well. so by 2024, nato is going to need to come up with a new formula to replace the so called whales pledge. and that's something that they plan to decide at this summer's summit in vilnius. what about ukraine's playing for fighter jets, any progress on that issue? if you're ukraine, you certainly don't see any progress. this is not something nato has any appetite to do. none of the allies who possess these fighter jets have made any offer whatsoever to ukraine and they don't see this is really a practical solution for ukraine. they believe that that fighter jets is flying

over russian held territory, and ukraine would immediately be shot down. and so that's a very expensive failure. what nato has said today, and yesterday to ukraine, is that let us bolster your air defense so that you can shoot down these missiles without having fighter jets in the air. this is something they're talking about possibly providing ukraine in the future when ukraine has pushed russia off its territory to pursue rebuild and air defense, including fighter jets for ukraine. but everyone says it's too early. now this is really not something that's in the cards at the moment, but remember that we said about tanks as well, and now they should be on their way to ukraine. so you never know the w corresponding terry sholtes in brussels. thank you so much. nato chief un stilton berg has admitted that turkey has so far blocked sweden and finland from joining the alliance. he's planning a trip to ankara for talks on the issue. the swedish defense minister paul johnson

told dw brussels bureau, chief alexandra from none, that sweden and finland are coordinating their name, nato membership. it's swindon finance started this process to get there. and we've been going together. the whole process or our preferred option will be that sweden and finland would join at the same time. at the same time, i have respect for the fact that these are 2 national sovereign parliaments, both in budapest and anchorage of theft to decide how they deal and the direct we're with the, our application. so i can take not to the fact that 28 out of 30 allies has already ratified the application in the mail record speed. and now we're waiting for o course for from a on can i m m from budapest? and are you confident that ankara and budapest to will drop her dare resistance to you in a to application? as far as budapest goes? so we have not to her than is certain criticism mean, so for, for our application,

this been more processes that has been been been a hindrance for, for the parliament, the in budapest, in regards to tier care, we have been and more you between sweden, fin, london, and turkey and we are very much focusing on implementing that, that the agreement and when that this will feel weird of course, hope that we will have a rapid rectification left me. but the look may also say right now, i think when it comes to tier care, all focus right now is so corso, liberating human suffering. and the tragedy is going on there. nato allies here and brussels half plans to increase their military assistance for ukraine. sweden is not a member of the alliance yet, but still a you are ready also to increase your military helper for ukraine as i understand. so what will be your contribution? well, when the new swedish government to entered power in october, we were crystal clear that were gonna escalate support for ukraine. that's absolutely crucial because put in escalated the war and the only way to respond

this by increasing support. therefore, we have some winter equipment to various forms of air defense systems. the latest batch on our town as what package that was on the combat. we'll give vehicle 5090, which we provided over 50 as c, b ninety's. and that which we can actually build a battalion in conjunction with the ukrainians, and that's going to provide ukrainians with that more combat power supporting ukraine is about helping ukraine. but it's also about investing into our own security. and it's absolutely critical for our security interest at the ukraine. regain city tauriel integrity at freedom and independence. and we are, are with them all the way to assure that germany has from it's a promised ann leopard, 2 tanks to ukraine, but they are scrambling to get enough partners on board to deliver those tanks. sweden has, are those tanks, are you willing to deploy them?

to ukraine. yeah, we are, they're very constructive meeting with, with the board spoke with doris her earlier today and that were called something called the pantry lunch. and there was also with the polish defense minister. i think it was very, very helpful. and what we're focusing right now is on delivering the combat vehicle 90 han and training that battalion. but i am said we're also open to, to participate in the lead leopard group. and we could provide training, transportation, logistics, bare parks or, or even tags. so this is being done in deliberations now with the other members of their, of the tank family. what i think is very important is to remember, supporting ukraine. now it's not about sounding platforms, is about building capabilities. and you can do that with, with artillery systems. so as witnesses are working on sending at their archer system, which is a very advanced hold, sir, with them, we are also sending their c b ninety's. and we possibly also put something tags. but we have to think about the economy to scale and efficiency. what's the best way to build these kind of capabilities to do ukrainians needs much. oh, here's

a quick look at some of the stories making headlines around the world today. at least 39 people have been killed and 20 more injured and a bus crash and panama authority say the bus is carrying migrants would entered from columbia record numbers of migrants arrived in panama last year headed for the united states. you are a u. s. court has sentenced a white supremacist who killed 10 black people and a mass shooting last year to life in prison. court proceedings were briefly disrupted after one of his victims, relatives lunged for him. the shooter expressed remorse for the massacre saying he'd been radicalized by racist conspiracy. theories online, it was nothing we'd like to thank you. all, dozens of migrants are missing and presumed dead after their boat sank off the coast of libya, rescuers have retrieved 11 bodies, while 7 survivors are in hospital. it's just the latest shipwreck in the mediterranean, one of the world's most dangerous migration routes. turning to the earthquakes and

turkey and syria, now the number of people known to have died and both countries has risen above 40000 humanitarian aid has been slow to reach parts of syria, which has been fighting a civil war for more than a decade. but a new deal between the united nations 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 open to border crossings between turkey and northwest. and syria, this international age convoy is heading straight on through the earthquake devastated parts if the opposition held region in syria and also damaged the road to the only border crossing that had been approved for you and a deliveries 8 workers can now deliver more shelter materials blankets and medical supplies.

i am now here we are the article in cedar border. we just log in to fax. we the reproductive magazine as lisa tracking parking. now we're not where she is. yes. and they, we did the berkeley sliced $170.00 for shooting. 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 to shifting their focus on to helping survivors. this worship doctor 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 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. earlier, i talked her yasmin october and engineer and university college in london. i asked her whether it makes sense to encourage people to return to buildings that are still standing. well, normally, we use a set of engineering assessment tools to be able to judge the residual bearing capacity of the, of the structures after and after a nurse quake. and this is often done by judging and assessing the cracks, pitcher and other damages on the structure. i personally know that the ministry of environment driven isaiah, i climate change is going to a very poor, old training. some of the most prestigious and good universities on earth wake

engineering in searcy. so i would like to think that they are, their methods are robust old, or i must say that there have been some food to just that we're going around in on social media. that's being ridiculed quite, quite widely because, you know, the assessors are doing certain things that, you know, didn't quite convey that sort of robustness and all of the assessments. but we actually don't know. i mean, we don't know how many people they deploy, and i would like to think that they have a good level of knowledge to do this in the right way. you know, some areas like and high for example, were completely flattened while in other places like, i don't know, many buildings what stood the quakes. what made the difference here? am again, we need to go to the ground to study the damage of the buildings, but we have also seen other examples. for example, the, the town of areas. it's a small town near marsh,

survived the earthquake with no damage or food equals we are hearing that the mayor of this town was very persistent in enforcing the law and the codes and everything else. so i think the difference is that the observing is going to come down to the, the ability to enforce and the low hundreds of thousands of people currently don't have a home to return to how long would you expect reconstruction to take. unfortunately for an event like this, we actually expect the recovery process to be to be able to take a very, very long time. and so he has doesn't have a very great track record on this. i'm afraid we know that still to we comes off the north korea from the 20111 earthquake are still living in the on the, on the, in the property housing in the work they have still have you on the proper shelter . again, for example, the victims of the easement earthquake from 2020 is still our needs,

etc. so i am hoping that this time the recovery, any construction processes are completed more promptly. but even the areas as high as the extent of the damage, i'm afraid it's gonna take a while. a lot of work ahead. yes, i mean october, many thanks for your time. around president abraham racy has criticized sanctions as quote weapons of mass destruction during the 2nd day of a rare state visit to china to run is seeking closer ties with beijing, which is already it's tom, trading partner or on the economy has been struggling for years due to us sanctions imposed over terror runs nuclear program. china has also been coming under increasing pressure from washington with tensions running high over the shooting down of a suspected chinese spy balloon. and for more we can now talk to his st. bonsai.

he's an associate professor of international studies at indiana university and has written extensively about iran welcome to the show. so the 2 countries are signing 20 cooperation agreements. is this the economic lifeline iran's been hoping for? thanks for having me on. it's certainly is. it's more of a reset in the relationship between the 2 countries since and 2021 to $2.00 countries signed a 25 year economic strategic pact that iran has yet to see the bet any benefits out of. and i think from the iranian perspective to hope is that by rekindling that pact that iran could finally see some economic benefits coming its way, especially since it is under a very severe sanctions from western governments. and it is increasingly desperate to get some revenue pump back into its economy, gaining more access to the chinese market. sounds like a win for terran,

but what's in it for beijing? go for bridging. this is a geostrategic deal more than anything else. i think it gives bridging. another important piece for it's bargaining toward visa via the united states. and you as well if it, beijing is seen to have some economic sway over the regime into iran. then if it's relationship with western governments, it needs to give up a piece. iran is a very simple bargaining chip that it could either by way of cutting back economic ties to or, or isolating iran. it could redress any pressure that the western governments we'd want to place on beijing for their own geopolitical purposes. but it also, there's a material dimension to this is that aging now has a border system when it comes to iranian oil, and it's getting very cheaply and is likes to have that flow of fuel

a continue unabated so that it could get its own economy. also going on a cheap wanting this comes as the united states has all, but given a hope of rating a deal with terror on, on it's nuclear arrangement program. on tuesday, even state department spokesman. net price essentially said the ball is now in china's court. let's have a listen and get right back to you. the p r c has a role to play and very clearly signaling to iran that it's the stabilizing activities that it's brings midship is not going to be rewarded. it's not going to be countenanced. it is not something that the international community is prepared to sit idly by and watch. and mr. ben, i this sounds like the u. s. tacitly admitting that its efforts to contain her on have failed. does china have any interest in helping the west on the fund? well, china has a geo strategic interest to also keep iraq iran away from

a nuclear weapon. so from a chinese national security perspective, and it is important for iraq to also not weaponized that, that has not changed. but when it comes to, um, the united states and beijing, washington relations. obviously, china would like to very much be portrayed as a, as a very important player at the table and to be able to bargain a deal and broker a deal between iran and the united states. and other signatories in a way that those signatories order. i should say the kind of leading diplomats in those groups were not able to do so china would like to kind of re position itself as the kind of savior of the deal in this regard. terence cozying up to beijing and moscow of course as well, has been described as an attempt to offset western sanctions over it's nuclear development. is this essentially here i'm telling the west, you know, we're going nuclear, whether you like it or not. i think it's, it's,

it's them saying that the p 5 plus the permanent 5 members of the un security council plus germany coalition against iran has now been broken down to p 2 plus one and china and russia plus iran having their own little packed and group on the side and that iran can exploit these fissures between the west and china and russia in this very important and vulnerable geopolitical moment in the relationship right now. and that to iran is going to use and every avenue at its disposable to exploit that, especially given the kind of crisis of legitimacy that to iran is facing from, within its own a domestic politics as well. very interesting insights the same been i many, thanks. thank you very much. here are some other stories making news to day. and a tele and court has acquitted former prime minister silvio berlusconi of ry been

witnesses that a trial related to his notorious bungle bungle parties with young women who was accused of paying guest july previous trials. allegations surrounding the parties, which mister berlusconi maintains were elegant dinners, have dogged him for years. scotlands 1st minister nicholas sturgeon is stepping down. the scottish national party leader took office in november 2014, soon after an independence referendum and went to scotland voted to remain part of the u. k. sturgeon is scotlands, longest serving leader. my traffic has returned to normal ad, germany's busiest airport and i t failure at frankfurt airport, caused major disruption and flight cancellations, german airline. lufthansa lamed a problem with a check in and boarding system. the company says the fault was caused by railway engineering works that damage broadband cables. rio de janeiro is gearing up for

its 1st full scale carnival since the pandemic. while some celebrations went ahead last year and brazil rios famous st parties were cancelled. now organizers reckon these festivities are going to be the biggest party on the planet. ah, it's been described as a reaper thin rio nodded neighbourhood rides across the city. oh, the sounds and colors of carnival ah back. ah. this she has seized the full return of the world's biggest posse, including the cities, epic, st. glucose, them off. the unofficial launch of 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 by lot. and i think that politically this year is special, not only because of the pandemic, but also because we'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 victory of a left when governments foot for rios well 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 it the will miss you, lucy? believe in this romantic carnival. yes. that they see on the television, the greatest show on us. it's all about passion. where, oh, app, i shall nice to see, but it's also a lot hard work and be more to provide than a year. could buy lou. he had the gabriella, my hu,

one and for re i show ponies, they hope the cities passion for carnival will also see. revel is spend big and help them to make up for the loss of tourism. during the pandemic bias, everything you need to some by the night away is on sale here with retail is expected to and more the $970000000.00 us dollars during the celebrations sir, looks like it's gonna be a good tarnish. that is all from the news for now, but stay with us because after a short break, i'll be back to take you through the day. hope to see you there. ah

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