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because i am responsible for the future of our country for the people far behind the past. sh. guardians of truth starts february 18th on d. w. ah, [000:00:00;00] ah . this is deed of the news live from berlin, natal promises more military assistance or ukraine. the alliance says member states are stepping up production of artillery shells, but there's no agreement on increasing overall defense spending on the program. more and more mass graves are being dug in turkey. following this month,
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earthquakes, most victims have been identified, but many families are still desperately trying to find their missing loved ones. and berlin prepared to roll out the red carpet with annual international film festival. aside from the usual glitz and glamour, they'll be a major focus on global politics and human rights. ah and told me your logic well welcome to the program. nato leaders in brussels have made new pledges to provide ukraine with weapons, and military training. allies have agreed to supply more ammunition and artillery shells, but there's been no immediate promise of more tanks and no advance on increasing overall defense defense spending. now that's prompted an admission from nato
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secretary general ian st. oldenburg, admitting that more needs to be done. it's a show of support tank. the media would network eliza have to fight it 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 there 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 or logistics on the, on the on. therefore, this is says so crucial for our ability to ensure that ukraine winds is able to retake territory. us defense secretary light austin is optimistic that a bit targeted support. there is real chance ukraine could make significant gains
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in the ward for every system that we provide. we got a train troops on that system, but we're also going to 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 train troops are platforms that can perform a lot better. and in this environment, i think they'll have a real good chance at making a pretty significant difference on a battlefield. considering future security threats to thick di, genuine arched member countries to spin at least 2 percent of their g t p on defense, but not agreement was reached on no targets for override defense spending. by the net or a life dw correspondence. terry shelton, brussels has been following the talks. 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
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secretary general stalls 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 then 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 order is big enough to, to entice industry to, to change production power practices and make them more rapid. more than a week after the devastating earthquakes in turkey and syria, they have so far claimed more than 40000 lives. rescuers still pulling people out
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alive from under the rubble. this footage shows the moment when a mother and her child were carried away on stretchers in hattie province. after being freed, they had been buried in the debris for more than 228 hours. a 2nd child was also rescued, according to turkish media reports and all 3, and now receiving medical care in hospital and despite those incredible scenes, such rescues are now becoming rare. and the focus in turkey is turning towards the millions of people needing urgent humanitarian relief. correspondence, johan, give us this update on the situation at a cam in the turkish city of atlanta rescue efforts are coming to an end here in the quaking region in turkey. and now of course, the focus is on the massive humanitarian crisis. hundreds of thousands of people, if not millions are now homeless. and although there have been huge evacuation efforts to other churches, cities,
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most of the people have had to stay intense for the past week for the past days. here in this 10 camp in the city of atlanta, people tell me they are receiving the help they need right now. aid workers have just been distributing baby diapers next for the children wet wipes. but there are areas, there are provinces that have been so much was effected. the city of i'm talking, for example, in the province of ha, tie has been almost entirely flattened by the quakes. people there still have to stay outside in the open. they urgently need heating, shelter, electricity, but also sanitation hygienists, products. many people here in the area also need psychological help because they are traumatized here in atlanta and surrounding cities. z forties now encouraging people to return to their homes,
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to the buildings that are still standing and they has started inspecting these buildings. but many people here tell me they are too scared to afraid of returning to their homes. mentioned huge number of people who died in the earthquakes earlier this month in turkey. they're being buried in mass graves. but that makes it difficult for their loved ones who survived to find them. and as he w, jack power reports some grave, still unmarked view, as might find the scenes in his report. distressing the unmistakable sound of grief the these people have just identified the body of a loved one. at this graveyard on the outskirts of karima marsh in southern turkey, miss tougher arrives in search of his child. hastily letterhead simba lush, him by the modem. i searched to hospitals for my baby like, i'm almost europe, but i want to bury my baby. and to pray, rosalind, that's all i want to miss you,
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but it's no loss miss yesterday. and nurse, he told me my baby had died his or that i get and that i should come here, but they showed me a photo let. now i'm here to find the gravy of miss lot. we should bill on a good at she been recovered in this theory, been mr for goes to find his baby fans arrive here every few minutes throughout the day, each carrying up to 4 people who died in the earthquakes. the national police force is coordinating the operation taking photos and fingerprints of the bodies which they match up to a national database in coordination with the interior ministry and the office of immigration will eligible joshua that his me to their medium, his jealousy, led him is when her processes are done like there's still some bodies which can't be identified whomever southerner for them would you like to avoid any confusion in the future? in our knowledge, we take a biological sample for dna analysis. another which can be matched to blood samples
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from their families later miss. yelp will uh, you know, assist them. sure. and then essentially, mrs. ala missouri was shaky, luchella's my of yours. there are 600 people working in this graveyard alone. each of the graves here has a number on it so that the families can come and find out exactly where their loved one has been buried. it is an extremely sad and extremely powerful scene. and the reality of this earthquake is that this is just one graveyard like this pretty much every city in the region has a similar one. around 95 percent of the buried have been identified for those whose families don't make it here in time. volunteers have come to treat the bodies before burial. gun them is done. gotcha. hutchison, i wish everyone was alive. isn't still on, but we're here treating the bodies as they should be treated in the islamic way. the brother. yes. give the families peace of mind law. me shark larva he is in the
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toronto few places represent the horrors of the earthquake more than here. and is more bodies of buried. more families walk to graveyard to find their final resting place. a harrison of stories making headlines around the world. ukrainian authority sake, 6 russian balloon spotted over cuba may have contained surveillance equipment. most of the balloons have now been shot down by the ukranian air defenses. russia has not yet commented on the reports. dozens of migrants are missing and presumed dead. after their boat sank off the coast of libya, rescuers of retrieved 11 bodies. our 7 survivors are in hospital. it's just the latest shipwreck in the mediterranean, or of the world's most dangerous migration routes. at least 39 people have been killed and 20 more injured in a bus crash in panama authority say the boss was carrying migrants with entered
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from columbia. record numbers of migrants arrived in panama last year headed for the united states. a u. s. court has sentenced a white supremacist and kill 10 black people in the mass shooting last year. it's a life in prison. court proceedings were briefly disrupted, after one of his victims relatives lunged at him. the shooter expressed remorse for the massacre saying he had been radicalized by racist conspiracy. theories online with nothing would like to thank you all for being here in berlin. the organizers are getting ready ready to roll out the red carpet for the city's annual film festival, known as the berlin alley. on top of the usual glitz and glamour is a string of movies and events in solidarity with ukraine and the protest in iran. the berlin allah is back after 2 scaled down additions this february. it's back to business for one of the world's biggest film festivals, and one of the german capitals,
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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 hold off their films or it also may be. ready 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 is no exception. last year's festival ended days before rushes invasion of
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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 to films in panorama fiction and documentary. we're film some generation we're film films in form 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. about the current human rights protests in iran are also reflected in the line
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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, our fashion. any one of them could be a winner and revenue one level of fear with you as actress. raquel welch has died at the age of $82.00 after a short illness well shot to fame as a global sex symbol after appearing in a furry bikini. in the 1966 film, 1000000 years b. c. she went on to become one of the most sought after actresses in hollywood,
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in the sixties and seventies, appearing alongside legendary actors, including james stewart, frank sinatra, and burt reynolds, her multi decade career included a go golden globe, winning performance in the 3 musketeers. 1973. well that's all from me for now. up next your business update with steven bits me. i'm told me all are watching

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