ah ah ah this is the w news line from berlin, ukraine's president visits troops on the front line, navy and battle of 50 apartment presidents, and i'm to be honest, sold just as he tries to boost morale in the long houston bloodiest battle of the war. also on the program, they found a bottle with a paper inside which in russian it said to ukrainian soldiers are buried here. b,

w talks with some of the families of ukrainian soldiers trying to locate their loft . wells water cycle is broke. that's the warning at the start of a special un conference to discuss threats to the water resources and what needs to be done to secure the future of humanity. life and friendship. president emmanuel macro defends his decision to raise the retirement age as protest across the country. ah, i'm so gale. welcome to the program. ukrainian present volume is the landscape has visited military personnel at the front line in the east. and don bass region is, was it came as russian asked dragon killed several people in ukrainian cities near

keith, nato secretary general. gestalt above was warned, western countries they'll need to support you pray for a long time. i mean, versus a full scale invasion. you leaders will discuss the war at the summit's a meeting today and endorse a plan to ramp up the supply of artillery shells to keith. meanwhile, amy claim itself. people are trying to come to terms with the loss of their loved ones, many of whom were fighting on the front lines and have still to be located. max xanda met some of them and sent this story. a battle ground turned to place of morning by 3 alone actually was among those who died, defending the keep suburbs here in motion lance, the monument is exactly in this trench. that's why i fenced with would. yeah, that's the 1st thing i did was here that my brother died usa that will somehow to

heal on me brought buffalo and his mother. larissa have created this memorial to remember him and others. however, finding out what happened was a painfully slow process. pavlov received an s. m. s that his brother had died, no further details. but i missed him. you should call if belong to him. we spoke, we sat for him for 2 months. we communicated with various services that might have some information and we found him territorial defense, which is okay to take cold. initially, that found a bottle with a pipe inside richard in russian. that said who to ukrainian soldiers are buried here. long skin weights off. like them, other families after must search for missing loved ones themselves. almost everywhere and was soon you come across silent witnesses of the war. people's homes

and cars destroyed lives lost the battle for keith ended almost a year ago. and in the case of war, many went missing those defending the city as well as civilians like those living in the occupied outskirts and who authorities to this day for struggling to fight for what a prior to little bit music, audible noble, what people are returning from abode returning from the west of ukraine, while who had been absent for a long period of time since the occupations and providing extra new information for you. both prisoners of war, also testify, but mostly the security service of ukraine works there. but they also gave information about where, how and under what circumstances people were killed and very difficult for anybody but civilians like pavlo and larissa, no less. she really don't want to depend just on the authorities. they started an initiative to help find missing persons more easily to day they meet with anatolia, some panko, a parliament member in

a keep school. the air raid sirens just went off. he wants to see how the government can support them as of the key. oh oh, thanks to pavlov. and his mother and every one who acts with them. we found i heroes who were missing. now we know where they died. well, this was 9 what they wanted to kinda look 56 people so far. but to improve the process, they want to create a centralized database where information from the military, governments and families just automatically pulled a step forward. even if war time security means not everything can be shared fucking enough. okay. yeah, while there is a well, there are certain date that we cannot divulge. it won't work very well. we understand that when we, when the base of the more expanded to mo motors closed and relatives will be able to find their missing loved ones faster, he needs more rich with dishes. it is we are blue, sky cookies,

niggley every other week. pablo and larissa come to the former fighting trenches, they say they can feel batteries presence here and they want to help others to have that to set you straight to the ukrainian capital than where we find our correspondent nick connelly. welcome, nick. nick, let's start with our comments from nato secretary general against dalton burg that ukraine's allies a need to prepare for an extended war. a war of attrition. is ukraine prepared for that? i think when you talk to people here as much people try to come to live day to day and not think too much about the future. hope that the next ukraine offensive will make all the difference. i think at some deep level, people are aware that this is here for the longer term that russia is not willing to give up on those goals to basically put ukraine back in its sphere of influence

. but certainly the price is rising. as we saw in that report are lots of people still are accounts for bodies not found. and i think the casualty numbers are still set to rise. we don't even have anywhere close to reliable figures about how many ukrainians have lost their lives in this war. last summer we heard from ukraine stop generals allusions. you said that ukrainian casualties were under 9000. more recently, we've heard from a top security official saying they're under a 100000. while western estimates american generals talking much, much bigger figures. and it looks like that is going to rise significantly as the kind of more experienced troops who were fighting since 2014 are now increasingly replaced or accompanied by people who have very little military experience. have been through some pretty rudimentary and brief training. and i'm upset more likely to lose the lives. but i think when you ask people, is it all worth it? isn't it worth going to the negotiating table and coming some kind of deal? they say russia is not going to leave us alone. it's all going to be just about winning time and then having another go in the future. so if we don't take this to

its logical conclusion, now we're just going to be setting ourselves up for even more damage, even more losses in the future. rival or present zalinski is due to address a you later at this summit said day was his top priority right now. i think this is all about haste and telling the europeans hurry up and there, there was, can slew of promises earlier on this year from european countries from north american allies at, but the actual delivery is turning out to be pretty problematic and is happening a lot slower and kind of drips and drabs, lots of european countries making promises in discovering the actually the equipment that was in storage is, isn't up to standard and will have to be repaired before it sent to ukraine. so it's all about basically trying to bridge that gap between european politicians who think they're doing their best and tried to explain to them just quite how crucial this equipment is here on foot lines in ukraine. and i think that also just a worry about ukraine fatigue. we've heard from the check president who's a former nato general, a friend of ukraine in theory,

who has been talking about the fact that ukraine only has one chance at his counter offensive that basically by next year, the interest will wayne and the willing sport will you of sport, ukraine, militarily, financially is also going to drop. so there's, i think, a real sense here of needing to have some successes to actually show something for all this help in the next couple of months to make sure that, that european supports they solid. i so that nick and nick conley and keith let's get more on that. you summit now from i corresponding to rosie birch out who is in brussels of welcome rosie. the ears agreed to send ukraine a 1000000 rounds of ammunition in the next 12 months is more military support likely to be on today's agenda. it will be on today's agenda. and as we just heard, nick, alluding to, there are some fears that you countries may get a fatigue about this, but that's not what they say. brussels and the european union as a whole insist that they will stay by key of site for as long as it takes and part

of making good on that promise. is this latest steel which you leaders will roberts down in this building here to day to jointly procure ammunition for you crate? that's important because so far, t of has been firing ammunition much faster than european arms production companies can actually produce it in order to backfill and keep ukraine's supplies up to the levels which key of says it needs in order to defend territory on the battle field . no, aside from that initial deal to jointly procure ammunition for key if you leaders will also look at unlocking of further 3500000000 euros in order of for of a fund which kind of a reimburse is e u. countries for arms deliveries to ukraine, and of course, as we heard from nick there, as we heard in max's report, a real needs ukraine says it has in order to keep defending territories. and especially as the spring and our approaches in sets in here in europe. right. and as we say, present that, asking you to address at the summit. so those points that you mentioned is that

what they're expecting or is there have been more will zalinski will undoubtedly be pushing for speed on deliveries of weapons, but he's also likely to call for speed on sanctions. so far, the european union has imposed 10 rounds of sanctions on moscow over its invasion of ukraine and tea. it would likely like to see an 11th thrown in the works. so we'd e u countries. but according to the agenda and the draft conclusions i've seen from this summit, there will be no talk of next round of sanctions. instead talk of closing loop holes on existing sanctions and trying to prevent any sort of search of circumvention. right? so a word on other subjects because of course, today's meeting in brussels is not just about you crime. absolutely. the economy really dominating talks here, and particularly efforts to try and keep the competitive as there's this global battle going on for the technologies of the future. the united states and china

heavily subsidizing clean technology industries. note, there has been a whole raft of proposals from the ease executive in order to try and shore up supplies. for example, of the critical minerals that you need to power it's green, transition on to try and unlock e some of the subsidy rules within this block so that a government can indeed back and fund these key industries of the future. but rumbling on beneath the surface, here is some anger to war, to germany because berlin has sort of committed derailed. what was an existing deal on a plan to ban future sales of new combustion engine cars from 2035. no. germany is looking for a specific car vote. we are not expecting any sort of breakthrough on this to day and fill it all might sound a bit technical, but it really is dominating the political agenda here in brussels and germany taking quite a lot of political heat for this debate, which as i said, rumbles on beneath the surface, not officially on the agenda here in brussels, but of course sometimes is all about what is left unsaid. and thank you for that.

rosie w correspondent, rosie birch. out in brussels. a climate change and pollution driving a world wide shortage of drinking water. according to a new un report which says hundreds of millions of facing critical waters scarcity . the runs holding a special conference in new york to focus attention on a growing crisis, a crisis that is prompted one australian woman. the sat herself, a unique challenge. when she noticed that the world was running out of water, mina booley started running. and she hasn't stopped since i'm running because i want to take the voices of the people from the front lines of this water crisis and take them into boardrooms, take them into the holes of power. and in by the government officials, the corporate corporate leaders to take action, the athlete and activists from australia completed 200 marathons across 32

countries over the last year. now she has made her way to new york city where delegates have gathered at the un for 3 day summit that i've had to discuss ways out of the water crisis. around to 2000000000 people. the quarter of the world's population, like access to safe drinking water station as a human rights. this is more than a conference on water. it is a conference on today's walls seems from the perspective of its most important resource. this conference mastery present, the quantum leaps in the capacity of member states and international community to recognize and act upon the vital importance of what the world sustainability and as a tool to foster piece and international cooperation in new you and report shows that the global water shortage is likely to waste and over the coming years, despite the efforts by the international community to make sure everyone has access to clean water on the side, things of the summit. some famous faces are highlighting the fact that

a lack of water impacts more than just people's health. you at a massive issue. it touches everything. it really affects women and girls are. they are disproportionately affected by this. a lot of millions of girls aren't in school because of this because they're, they're collecting water. the you in wants to go to universal access to drinking water by 2030. but scientists warned that the global community would need to triple its efforts to achieve that. a transfer to summit kicked off the u. s. government promised $49000000000.00 us dollars of funding to help the global war to cause. i think it's easy in places like perez, i here in new york city where we turn on the tap, what it comes out to think yes, that there is this major systemic global. what a crisis that exists out there. marina. julie has witnessed that crisis herself seeing melting glaciers and arid regions during her journey. now, she hopes that the world won't turn a blind eye to an issue, that in the end will affect everyone everywhere.

let's get more on this from louisa oz. from martinez of environment. welcome back. louise. when one does is, is another international conference telling rich countries, the poor countries still need their help. really going to provide practical practicable solutions to these problems. i mean, we have to look at it in a way that this is the 1st conference dedicated to water and almost 50 years. so that must be a step in the right direction or the you and it's really been pushing for something to be done. and they have promised to make our safe water accessible to everyone and sanitation by 2030. and they have admitted themselves that the target is off track by quite a lot of they are calling for international communities to make much more investment in water. and there are some solutions that have been offered as part of the report that they put together a so called water funds, for example,

that would ask cities and industry to contribute to habitat being protected upstream. so that the water than that arrives with them is, is quality water also better management of agriculture to stop the pesticides that run into what sources and things like that. so there are some solutions that are offered, right? so this is not you talk about pesticides, and this is not been just talking about the volume of what we're not just talking about drought. no, i mean drug obviously is a big problem because that involves war to scarcity. but actually there are issues of flooding as well that cause massive problems with contaminated water then running into the water systems that we use for our drinking water, et cetera. and this is leading to the death of over a 1000000 people every year that are getting disease from the water that they are drinking. so this isn't really an issue that needs to be dealt with,

is also something that set to worsen as a result of climate change. these extreme weather events, whether it's drought or flooding are set to increase as the temperature increases. and these are issues that are more likely to affect the richer countries because we've seen here in germany, for instance, a drought, arms flooding are before going to bring those sorts of, of problems with them. then this is not just a poor countries problem. no, not at all. i mean, obviously there are bigger issues with access to water in countries that are more vulnerable to climate change, sub saharan africa, for example. but what experts we're really trying to hammer home to me as i was putting together reports on this, was that global north countries are also being massively impacted by this. and so this is something that, you know, they will want to solve as much as trying to help more vulnerable. she is a soul that too. and there, you know,

there is no one solution that is going to fix this problem. they are going to have to, to look at multiple ways. and the idea of this conference is to bring out a commitment. we'll just have to see how seriously those commitments are taken. thank you for that louise osborne from d. w. environment. thank you. you're watching d. w use still to come business for skin. bleaching chemicals in jamaica is booming. despite the clear health risks report from a capital on a form of racism known as color is so quick look at civil stories. making headlines around the world will start in the u. s. where stocks have fallen after the central bank raised interest rates again by a quarter of a percentage point. that's despite fears that it could add to a financial turmoil after a string of bank failures,

a federal reserve. so the increase seems to lower inflation by making consumer borrowing more expensive. listen, believe you have 5 tier gas rubber bullets at hundreds of teachers during the 3rd week of protests, demanding education reforms and increased funding. teachers have called a general strike a road blockades for friday. if the government doesn't give into that demo. former british prime minister barak johnson. i faced the grilling by a parliamentary committee, investigating the so called a party gate scandal. and he declared that he had not lied to parliament about a series of parties held at his offices. despite the coven 19 lockdown. if found guilty of deliberately misleading lawmakers, johnson faces suspension from paula toyed, where they could be said to be, or to france where present macro has defended his decision to force through unpopular pension reforms. he says the changes which include raising the retirement age from $62.00 to $64.00 are necessary,

and he says he's prepared to be unpopular in order to implement them. and his remarks come as angry protests across the country escalate. in the southern french city of nice talk of revolution is in the air ah, outside the train station protest is sing. ah, we're here even if macro doesn't want it. they say while doesn't occupy the tracks in sight. locking the line with a mass go to the french president, the architect of the pension reforms, they, so vim and li, oppose. but despite days of disruption and growing unrest across the country, emanuel micron seems determined to press on a movable pass. i speak to you right now from do you think i enjoy implementing

this reformer? no, no, it's good. do you think i could have done the same as many others before meeting and sweep this on to the carpet? yes, maybe. but there is one thing i regression, it's that we weren't able to get the message across. this reform is necessary. greasy. victor moreland, efficiency, the fast that i fall, don't weeks. so yes, concert, there aren't a 100 solutions if we want the pension system to be balanced. over it no longer is sig other, and the longer we wait and the worse it will get hotter. and so this reform is necessary when and i would have preferred not to so, but it's also because of a sense of responsibility solidity. they said to me, you had been meant to com. tensions with anger growing in recent days after the bill was pushed through parliament without her votes. but his comments only seemed to have poured fuel on the fire. with one union leda accusing the french president of mocking workers. oh, this interview is outrageous. so it's,

everything's fine with you. i'm doing everything well. nothing is happening on the streets. and the people who are complaining, it's because they don't understand anything like this is a president who is sure of himself of what he is doing. and it is serious. it is serious. oh, you macro and says he doesn't care about being unpopular and insists his pensions. reforms will be implemented by the end of the year. that his defiance in the face of such public outrage is only lightly to heights intentions in the weeks and months ahead. with protest is showing no sign of backing down a doctors in kingston, jamaica fighting a losing battle as they continue to warn women about the long term damage caused by skin whitening products. despite the warnings, business is booming. so why are so many women willing to take these risks? same to those who use these a bleach is another products with links to cancer at white,

the skin is associated with success and wealth. been there, the theme melissa shows us what she uses to bleach. her skin creams that peel enlightened by blocking the pigment melamine, which darkens the skin a is. this am a phase leg. every now are every at the now, she uses something stronger for her knuckles. you know, like when you have dark levels, this law remove the dark enough of as a white person. i want to understand why people in jamaica bleach their skin. melissa does not want to be identified as the topic is controversial. the skin creams are known to be damaging, but melissa wants results in, migrate normally. look at this figure. if ring below, they meet the skin pretty kingston, jamaica was once a british colony were slaves were brutally exploded. 90 percent of the population has african ancestry reggae, artist sing about their roots. still, business is booming for skin bleaching chemicals. why?

because as this market, seller explains, society is unequal. white skin still stands for success and for affluence will react. we brought the all want to be late, you are as we get more attention when i read like the market for such products is huge beauty salon straighten, hair and treat skins. other clients can look like some celebrities, it's fashion, but also carries more meaning that style ear even in jamaica or style and, and, and from what i think some people use it to change their identity. this beauty ideal is also a colonial remnant. according to doctor alfred dawes, it has serious consequences. bleaching chemicals cause skin to weaken and become thinner. wounds, don't heal. well, what are some creams contain hydro queen noun, which is band and cosmetics, and the e. u, as it could cause cancer. they are using strong compounds and they're using

techniques that make these compos penetrate the skim at much greater rates than what the manufacturers would have intended educational quality professor donna hope is calling for more funding for awareness and education because she says that black people are often worse off than people with lighter skin and it's a form of racism known as color as them to the other. mean nobody. okay. people who are living in the society still feel so disconnected from the opportunities that society has that the have to see probably light in their skin as a way of you know, elevating themselves and uplifting themselves with a society. has a lot of work to do. melissa doesn't think much about the criticism. she says she hasn't had any health problems, at least not yet. yeah, i would say for lifetime has that one point. you have to stop one day, right. she says it simply makes her feel more attractive and wants to continue for

as long as she can just remind about top story at this hour. ukrainian present tough laudermill zalinski has visits. troops on the eastern front line, the unannounced, that trip was his 1st bath in december and was meant as a morale boost, but troops fighting to retain control of battle. i'd set you up to date, i'll have more world news at the top of our up next here on d. w a conflicts or with farrah. kelly, i speaking with a former deputy prime minister of ukraine. good day. ah, ah, with

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