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talk face is being barred from the united states. the head of the popular chinese owned app is in u. s. congress today for a hearing on the company security and privacy record. ah. hello, i'm clear richardson, thank you so much for joining us. in the coming hours, you leaders are set to endorse a plan to ramp up the supply of artillery shells to keep their gobbling for a summit in brussels, united nations secretary general antonio quoterush is joining the proceedings in person, while ukrainian president will let him her zalinski will address the meeting via video link. a number of other topics will be covered up the summit, including migration and the economic impact of the war in ukraine. or correspondent rosie burkhard is out today's summit summit in brussels, where they're set to prove bout plan to send keep a 1000000 rounds of ammunition within the next 12 months. i asked her whether

further military support is also on the table. e leaders here in this building will be giving clear of rezoning rubber stamp to this plan to jointly procure ammunition for ukraine, something key. it says it needs and fast. we've heard it from the estonian prime minister kaya collis. she is the woman who is behind this plan. she says she's delighted that has been managed to be agreed within the space of 5 weeks, which of course is quite a long time on the battlefield. what is the timeline of european union law making? well, it's quite speedy. so she says she's delighted when she was asked. will this be enough? she said, well, it depends how long this war loss. and of course, we have had dire warnings. for example, from the nato secretary general against oldenburg saying european countries should prepare for the long haul. here, e u nation, say they will stay by ukraine site for as long as it takes. and this new plan is about delivering on that promise. and we're also expecting ukrainian president vul

event voting lensky to address the summit of the video link. what you expect we might hear from him. claire, what i expect is what zalinski often says, needs addresses lease leaders in brussels. and that is one key word, speed, speed on delivery, weapons, speedo, delivering on promises and speed own sanctions. remember, the european union has already slopped 10 rounds of sanctions on moscow over its invasion of ukraine. that includes, for example, an embargo on russian coal and about imports of most russian oil key of wheat, of course, like to see the screws tightened further on moscow's ability to keep financing its war, but from the stony prime minister who i just mentioned. we've also heard that she would like an emphasis at these talks on preventing circumvention of sanctions. she says the priority should be closing loop holes in the existing restrictions as it was also talk for a moment about china and its support for russia. she'd been paying has just gone to

moscow, holdings hawks, with food and calling him a dear friend. how concerned are you leaders about what appeared to be deepening ties? they're both china really is the elephant in the room at this meeting. it's not officially on the agenda, but of course i think we all know the diplomatic event of this week is not the summit, but of course was those landmark talks between she should ping and russian president vladimir putin know, looking at what does appear to be as you said deepening ties were having some degree of caution and concern for me. you leaders, you studied prime minister brushed it off on her way into these talk. she said, i'm not concerned. on the other hand, we heard from lot of his prime minister cuz shot is karen's. he said, this should prompt you to reflect long and hard, deeply on how 8 wants to approach relations with beijing. he says, the best way is a united approach, which we haven't so far seen from e leaders. sometimes china can be a controversial issue when it comes to foreign policy in this european union. no, let's not forget. beijing says 8 wants peace and he's working for peace. but of

course, brussels and beijing have very different ideas on how to get there. china has criticize the european union for sending arms to ukraine. it says that it's sort of fueling the fire of this more. whereas on the european union side, there's a much more of a degree of suspicion there because china hutch, despite saying it wants peace, it is not imposed sanctions on moscow. and of course, it hasn't actually explicitly criticized moscow for this full scale invasion on the country. we've seen in the past few days, signs of deepening and quite friendly ties. thank you so much for that update. that's dw correspondent rosie for church in brussels. i spoke earlier to the landscape top foreign policy advisor, iraq, java. here's his take on that. he was planned to send a 1000000 rounds of artillery ammunition to support his country's military. yeah, this is a real important initiative for which was initiated by a prime minister of restoring your wealth central to her personally until the government until the country. so the you all to support it's easy. it is. a

mission is what is better needed now, you know, to start the counter offensive on the ground. you remember was successfully had to go on the offensive several territories in the, in the end of previous years. so this year you know, we have to stop it, but it just started would need enough artillery shells enough. our movie doesn't dance and that will provide our success. when you talk about a counter offensive, we've heard the commander who cranes round for the same. today. it is army would very soon take advantage of russian fatigue in bach lute, is that where you were referring to eva crane and counter offensive. and oh, we're definitely will not reveal where we will start the counter offensive about if you ask me about the boston area, but more daily is important for you. great, because this is our territory and this is our land will not give away any single each of your graham territories, but definitely,

let's not use the ta school that grocer and listen to, you know, a review the plans will you bring him down to where is that ammunition then most badly needed in ukraine while the, with the on all the director is, i mean, you even heard a huge old about the number over to sales. we use on the daily basis. but dresser uses like 5 or 10 times more we want and we have to do fair now. so now when defend in like the boss move but best, yes. would you dare to show us, you know, to start to gander offensive in many areas, which i don't you have liberators. and we have this promise from the you. but yet all of your western partners pledge as whether it's tanks or ammunition or other equipment, they do seem to have one thing in common in that the delivery takes a long time. what kind of impact does that have? this unfortunate issue and there are many reasons for these. sometimes the supply

chains are quite a bit weak. sometimes it takes brokers. yes. what do you speak with a delivery? because we've received many promises and your amendment to beginning of this open war. there was no talk about the system. there was not about the wasn't appleton. now we have on now we started to leverage with them. did battle tanks. so yes, we needed to quickly we needed by the end of the smallest of the bigger mileage. we'll have to start the counter offensive. ok, so i call for that delivery by the end of this month. i do want to turn to get your view on how deepening ties between russia and china are going to affect this war we've seen put in turning to beijing seeking support. are you worried about increasing chinese involvement on the kremlin side also in the war? you know, i would not call this is it of she shouldn't be as little successful with definitely when my come to a successful presence, she because much of the talk was about to write the development of economic dice

between china and russia for the increase in the supply of russia, energy resources to achieve rush energy resources. so as far as the present, she's concerned the success of lou he's, while jim, i think didn't even achieve what he was play. so we don't have any information about, you know, chinese delivery weapons to russia. we don't have any statements about, you know, union between china and russia are even work. yes. you great. so i think the chinese leadership and just people tell these people are wise enough not to take sides of ross or in this we were expecting that chinese presentation paying after returning from that trip to russia would call president zalinski on the phone. are you still expecting that that call is going to happen? no, i don't have any official information on that, but really my president was telling earlier and this is still true that he's ready

to talk to president she in order to give you what is going on and you great. what kind of communication have you had with the chinese side and what do you expect to hear from them? a foreign minister regularly talks to she is a lead for minister of china, and mister garcia, closer to the previous foreign minister, was now talked advisor in the, in the party in the room on to mr van e. so there's a good one, i think so, but definitely the talk between the leaders would be the most reliable source for us, for chinese authorities to get to position to look is really going on. as far as the ration and rationalization graham is concerned. and i really want to get a sense of ukraine's position here regarding keeping ties between russia and china . what would the president, the landscape message a b to she? well, the president landscape will deliver his message personally to

a president. she, i will not concentrate, you know, a lot of speculation is whether it will be or not. we'll give you another example at the time of visit to prison. she to, to moscow or minister of japan was guarantee a country which is presenting to the g 7. and he was really ready and eager to talk about the military situation and your grandmother for that reservation of your grades. so less than what is going on. unfortunately, and we need to invoke as many countries as possible to help you can't overcome this russian english. so what about china's proposals for negotiating an end to this war? can china become a trusted mediator between your country and russia? if you mean the document which was announced to several weeks ago, it's kind of the plan. it's kind of for understanding the situation and it's not really good that the decisions got it. so the quantity can still work. but in some, some proposals, and this in this, in this, in this document i'm going to send in,

i mean, the integrity of the conference. that's what's important for your brain. let's talk about restoring your integrity of your brain or fight nuclear charities or nuclear blick man, what does russia go in doing against all the world? so let's talk. the only thing is to talk ok. now last month your president vladimir zalinski said 2023 will be the year of our victory. do you think that that still stands that's absolutely still possible provide you did this video delivery of a nation and the killer system and battle tanks and fighter jets taking place? that's absolutely possible because there's a view and current and professionals on the armed forces. what we'll need is the unity of europe, or the entire world around to grant in terms of the sanctions. in terms of european integration of your grade, you're talking today about this i'm, it's very important to go in with a european boss of your grade will join your brain for the you. so if everything

this is in place, we will definitely, well, well, thank you. so much for taking the time to speak with us today that was your advisor to ukrainian president for letting your so actually really appreciate you taking the time. thank. i also spoke to our correspondent in chief nick connelly and asked him for his thoughts on iraq fast remarks. i think, claire, you heard from that potential advisor? oh, oh, to an attempt to be considered tree at all. cost seems really weighing up his words . not trying to ruffle any feathers you remember a couple months ago you had lots of ukrainian top figures being pretty outspoken in their demands for support for weapons, notably, ukrainian buster, germany, and the munich was someone who was a kind of tabloid favorite. and i think they've realized that that can be counterproductive, especially with china. that's kind of says you on the fence right now is supporting russia to an extent is allowing rush to sell its energy. will beated

a big discount, but hasn't really thrown its military might behind russia yet, and provided ammunition other supplies on a large scale. so the real does either to make sure that stays as it is and doesn't increase the kind of scale of the support that the same goes for the e. that's now finally getting around to a by ammunition for you. great. but there was all see that call to haste, i think is important just to kind of think about the fact that we've had recently a statement from the boss of one of germany's talk, alms manufacturers. climate. i was saying that this year he expects the only 2 thirds of his capacities will be actually operational to producing ammunition because the government contracts just aren't ready. the bureaucratic machine isn't able even after a year war, to make sure those contracts come out fast enough to give him the certainty he needs to set those are those conveyor belts running and get that i mentioned to you . great. so lots of questions and a real worry henkie of the people in brussels in berlin. just simply don't get quite how urgent this is and just are willing to move with the speed as needed. and

if i was want to ask you about another point that we touched on in that interview there. we know that senior ukrainian general has said rushes months long assaults on the besieged. your bach mode is losing steam and at a counter offensive may be coming soon. how likely do you think that is, would ukraine really openly advertise plans like that? while? certainly, i'm always a little worried, a little concerned to follow a line like that. it does seem a little too obvious and if you think back to last year when there was constant talk in the summer of 2022 of imminent ukrainian attempts to regain for the soul. and that didn't happen for quite some time. and the initial attacks on russian prisons were in the east. hundreds of calmed away from edison. there's always a sense this is part of the kind of psychological and kind of information war, but certainly there is pressure on ukraine to show some results. i was a real fear here that if you going isn't able to win back seen from lots of tertiary, that the willingness in the west keep on supplying crane with weapons and money is going to wayne. so military just feeling a lot of pressure,

but i don't think if that counter attack happens, it will be anywhere near by moot. i think that is a diversionary tactic, a place to kind of hold you, russian forces to force them to kind of commit resources. and most of the pundits here think, but a ukrainian contract will happen for the south close to will to see of as of but now after we are only guessing here. i think that is the ukraine stretch to just keep everyone guessing and to try and catch the russians of god. thank you so much for your insight that our correspondent nick connelly and keith this is, steve says, up to 13000 ukrainian troops have been killed since the start of rushes invasion. and the true number can only be guessed at in the chaos of war. many deaths can't be properly documented as bodies can't be recovered. the soldiers registered as missing leave behind loved ones for desperate for news, and unable to grief. a battle ground turned to place of morning by 3 lord actually was among those who died defending the keep suburbs here and

motion lance. the monument is exactly in this trench. that's why i fenced with would. yeah, that's the 1st thing i did to your board. it was here that my brother died. who said that all some oh good was a villain, me brought pavlo and his mother larissa have created this memorial to remember him and others. however, finding out what happened was a painfully slow process. pavlo received anessa miss that his brother had died. no further details but i missed him. you shall california him. we spoke, we sat for him for 2 months. we communicated with various services that might have some information ah, life. and we found him territorial defense, which is located here called wesley that found a bottle with a pipe inside richard and russian. that said who to ukrainian soldiers are buried

here. long crowns came, rates off like them. other families often 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 cas 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 are struggling to fight for water by a little bit music, audible noble people are returning from abode. returning from the west of ukraine. well, who had been absent for a long period of time since the occupation and are providing us with 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 or movie but

civilians like pavlo and larissa. no, no she really don't want to depend just on the authorities. they started an initiative to help find missing persons more easily. today they meet with anatolia on 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 looks at 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 dates that we cannot divulge we'll do. it won't work for

a we understand that when we, when the base of the more expanded to mow, oh, he more disclosed and relatives will be able to find them missing. loved ones faster, he needs more rich with dishes it is we are blue, sky hickey's 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 somebody. let's bring you up to speed now with some other stories making headlines around the world. demonstrators and france have blocked bus terminals of disrupted train services and closed some schools. and the latest protests over the government, controversial pension reforms. demonstrators have also blocked access to a terminal at paris as a child's goal, airport, over the plans to raise the retirement age. to 64 israelis protesting controversial

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but hundreds of millions of people facing critical water scarcity. the united nations is holding a special conference in new york to focus attention on a growing crisis. as a crisis that has prompted one australian woman to set herself a rather unique challenge. when she noticed that the world was running out of water arena gould, started drumming. 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 inspire these government officials, these corporate corporate leaders to take action the immature athlete and activists from australia completed $200.00 marathons across $32.00 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. and i have to discuss ways out of the water crisis around to 2000000000 people on the quarter of the world's population,

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they're collecting water. the u. n. 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 trust the summit kicked off the u. s. government promised $4.00 to $9000000000.00 us dollars of funding to help the global war to cause. i think it's easy in places like paris are 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. mina. 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. and chinese social media giant tick tock is under fire in the united states. the companies as ceo will face a grilling by us lawmakers today over the safety of the social media app,

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