only german has never been simpler german to go. ah ah ah, this is dw slide from berlin. ukraine needs ammunition, and it needs it fast. that's the word in brussels as european leaders gather forest summit stack expected to approve a quick delivery deal. agreed to earlier in the week, also coming up, tick tock, faces the ban of the united states. the popular app is owned by a chinese company or their c always in congress today, for a hearing on the company's privacy record. and the un vaughn's humanity is in peril

due to a global shortage of clean water. a special conference is underway in new york to look at what we can do to secure supplies of humanities, most precious resource blue . i'm go ahead, elf, as welcome to the program. european union leaders are gathering and brussels for talks on supporting ukraine. they expected to endorse a new deal to meet the war torn countries request for more ammunition talks. follow the chinese presidents high profile visit to moscow earlier this week. a strong show of support for vladimir putin, a sparked some concern in europe. ukraine says it needs more ammunition to fend off russian attacks and fast. that's why europe union leaders are giving

a rezoning rubber stamp to plans to send ukraine $1000000.00 artillery shells over the next year. but will this promise meet the scale of the challenge? it depends how, how far, and how long the war will last will is, or will this be enough for or not? so that's why we need to have and use all the tools that we have. political pressure validity cancellation, economic sanctions, to put the pressure on russia to and this war, not everyone is impressed by europe's voe to keep arming key if beijing accuses brussels of adding fuel to the fire of war. and when the chinese president met his russian counterpart at a different diplomatic meeting this week, there were warm words and signs of deepening friendship, a cause for concern among some new leaders. i think it is a little bit of an eye opener for us in europe. because if for maybe many, many people were, were hoping that china could somehow be, or take the,

the role of a broker. china's not doing this at all. china is certainly a moving, right, know overtly on the side of russia. and this is actually a very big challenge in the big difficulty for all of us. another big challenge keeping europe's clean technology industries competitive. some fear unity on the use way ahead could be undermined by a request from germany to car vote. an exemption for e fuels in e u plans to ban sales of new combustion engine cars next decade. amid criticism that it's too late to ask for changes, german chancellor, olaf schultz insists. compromise is on the horizon, escaped its anguish nor knock guns. it's really just a matter of finding the right way pragmatically of actually implementing promises. the european commission made long ago that if i understand the discussions between the commission and the german government correctly, as far as those responsible are concerned and everything is on the right track of

justice, alice of generic e leaders are also holding talks with the united nations secretary general, he warned that developing academies are facing a perfect storm of rising hunger, food insecurity and the fall out of the climate crisis. and europe. he says she be taking the lead on finding solutions. ukraine, of course, a most important point on the agenda for you leaders a meeting at today. let's talk about that with the w. brussels bureau chief of some of phenomena of summer. the you wants to send ukraine a 1000000 rounds of ammunition within the next year, where we likely see even more military support there. well, i think with that we shouldn't expect any new or surprising pledges or promises here. i actually took the question to estonian and prime minister colors and ask her whether we could see some movement, for instance, on that question of fighter jets. as you know, ukraine is asking for modern western made fighter jets,

but she told me that their priority now is ammunition, and that is what we can expect here. we can expect leaders to indoors the plan to provide you quain, with a 1000000 artillery rounds within the next 12 months. and they decided on that within 5 weeks, which might be a long time on the battlefield. but for the european union, it is moving at the speed of light. however, a questions remain, for instance, how they are going to achieve this goal. we know that stockpiles he and europe are depleted and that it's a very difficult to read upper ammunition production. just imagine, normally the industry in europe would produce around $300000.00 to artillery rounds and months. and that is what ukraine needs for 2 weeks. now,

ukraine president vladimir lensky will also address the summit via video link. he's getting a 1000000 shells. now what else might we be hearing from him? well, i think that she will updates to leaders on the situation on the ground, on the battlefield. a dan and he's in every off. he's every one of his addresses to the european leaders. he also urge them to act quickly. he also urge them to impose more sanctions on russia to make them pay and to prevent them from being able to finance at this war. however, at the moment, there is not much appetite, as it seems to impose more sanctions. they already impose 10 rounds of sanctions on russia. so that my impression is at the moment that they would like to focus more on closing existing loopholes. now let's talk about china abates and its

support for russia. she's in pain has just gone to moscow. i'll talk with putin called him a dear friend. how concerned are you leave is about what appears to be deepening ties between moscow and beijing. all china is not officially on the agenda here, but it seems that at least some leaders are very concerned by oscar latvian prime minister currents, for instance, whether he thinks that to the european union shoot to recalibrate it approach to china and get tougher. and he told me, yes, that is what we need. he also said that the visit to moscow was an eye opener, because now it's clear that china is not an honest broker either. but there are other leaders, for instance, luxembourg was prime minister bethel who told us that he thinks that china is still a partner, not only a competitor, an arrival, and he suggested that it would be good for you as president joe biden,

to sit together with the chinese leader to try to end this war. so as you can see, there are different opinions and debt as may be why the european union member states are not very eager to have a discussion on china right now. one experts even told me that having this discussion white now would be like opening pandora's box. i'll correspond alexander fernando in brussels. thank you very much. listen. well, keith says up to $13000.00 ukrainian troops have been killed since the start of rushes invasion. the true number can only be guessed at in the chaos of war. many, this can't be properly documented. as bodies can't be recovered, the soldiers were registered as missing. leave behind lock bonds, desperate for news, and unable to grieve. a battle ground turned to place of morning by 3. le le really was among those who died, defending the key of suburbs here and motion lancer,

the monument is exactly in this trench. that's why offense that with would look like that's the 1st thing i did to you because it was here that my brother died that all some oh to villain me. but on buffalo 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 the nest amiss that his brother had died. no further details, blemishes, him, you shall california him. we spoke, we sat for him for 2 months, we communicated with various services that might have some information on and we found him tivitz oil defense, which is the okay to take cold nationally. that found a bottle with a pipe inside my richmond russian. that said, oh, to ukrainian soldiers buried here. long cries,

gigabytes 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 cave ended almost a year ago and in the castle 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 what a prior to that would be 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 occupation and up providing us with new information for you. both prisoners of war also testify, but mostly the security service of ukraine works that they also gave information about where, how and under what circumstances people were killed and very difficult pull into

the 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. today they meet with anatolia stone, 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. ross was 9 more than one as a kindle, 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 for can they be 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 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 me. as have a look now at some of the other stores making headlines today. demonstrate as in france of blocked bust, terminals, disrupted train services and closed some schools. in the latest protests over the government's controversial pension reforms, demonstrators have also blocked access to a terminal. as iris shall the gold apple over the plans to raise the retirement age . to 64 in as well, protest as against controversial,

judicial reforms faced off against police until of if on thursday, demonstrators call for a day of shut down the latest in a string of protests. they believe the far right government actions are threatening to additional independence. australia has announced more details of her referendum, it will hold later this year on indigenous rights. the vote propose as setting up a special committee in parliament to advance the rights of aboriginal and torres strait islander. they represent about 3 percent of australia's population of nearly 26000000. the clock is ticking for chinese social media, tick tock in the united states, beloved by millions of young americans. this video app is in jeopardy of being banned government employees in the us and several other countries have already been ordered to remove the app from work devices. there are concerns tech talks. parent

company could be sharing user data with chinese authorities. it has more than a 1000000000 active users and over 150000000 in the us alone. but take talks, future in america is uncertain. the popular social media up. let's people post shop videos about any subject. but it's who owns a platform rather than it's content that has raised concerns in washington. so look, we've express concerns over a, china's and potential use of software platforms that could endanger or threaten american safety and their national security. so that is the presence concern. that is why we have called on congress to take action. the up is owned by the chinese company by dance. and we know that what a critic say that beijing could false take, talk to hand over information on millions of americans

take talk claims. it is never given data to the chinese government and would refuse to do so if asked the us and other governments have been the up from work devices. but there's a push for tighter restrictions. everyone is show here and the see of tick tock to day. i'm suit the company's c o shows in, chew is on a charm offensive to defend the platform was half of including testifying before the us congress to create a share to learn or just to have some fun. and if more makers don't get the reassurance as they want, they could move to further restrict, or perhaps even bomb with social media giant from the american market. as go to our washington correspondent, ers stephens, humans who has been following this story for us from tito is

a social media video app. i've got big on dance videos and especially beloved by young people at the same time. the companies under scrutiny by the government. why is this such a big deal in the us, sir? it is because it is so highly political and as we just heard a 150000000 people in the us alone on tick tock on the social media app. or, you know, everybody else here from facebook to, to instagram and snapshot and all those other social media apps, they would love to have those numbers and they try. but for them it's gone downhill . antique talk is through the roof with its numbers absolutely popular here and of course, and that's the problem. politicians here and the white house, meaning the biden administration, but also republicans, that is something tick, tock managed to unify democrats and republicans in their interest. and in their concern about bi dance, tick tock, smother a company or tick tock,

sharing data off americans with the chinese communist party with the regime or the government in china. that is the problem at the core here. now the boss of sic saca will testify today in front of a congressional committee. what's at stake for the company in so he's going to be grilled, actually the hearing just has started with seo and show well having his opening remarks and then he can expect the expect to be grilled by the committee members who are sitting in front of him and want answers and those answers are of they want are like, how do you protect how is ticked or protecting data off it's consumers off of people who are using it, protecting it from excess from the chinese government. and this is what he has to answer. it is expected that he will come up with,

with basically the promise to say like there is no way that the chinese government will have access to the data we collect, like everybody else, like google collects when you search our facebook or instagram or snapshot when you're on those social platforms, we will make sure to protect this data from u. s. customers, specifically the question is, will they believe him? so how likely do you think then in that the ban will that the app will be banned? don, this is it got you question. i don't have the answer on this one to be frank and nobody has this can go one way or another. i think it is prudent to assume that there won't be a complete ban of tick tock for all american potential or real time, now 150000000 consumers at the time. i think, as you have pointed out in the piece already the government employees will have

a band and they have been already of tick tock. there's no way that tick those coming back to this um on their phones of government employees. but a complete ban will probably not happen. of course. i think the politicians here in washington democrats as well as republicans, will push for um, better measures to control for tick tock to, to make sure that they do not share or the mother company doesn't share any data of you as customers with the chinese communist party of the a resume in beijing. it up mm 7 z months. they're from washington d. c. thank you very much. different a new un revolt of climate change and pollution are driving a worldwide shortage of drinking water, with hundreds of millions of people facing critical water scarcity. united nations is holding a special conference in new york to focus attention on a growing crisis as a crisis that prompted one australian woman to set herself

a unique challenge. when she noticed that the world was running out of water mina, julie 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 the water crisis and take them into boardrooms, take them into the holes of power and then by the government officials, the corporate corporate leaders to take action. the image 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 2000000000 people from the quarter of the world's population, like axis 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. scenes from the perspective of its most important

resource. this conference must be 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 peace 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 sidelines of the summit, some famous faces are highlighting the fact that a lack of water impacts more than just people's health. you had a massive issue, it touches everything. it really affects women and girls. um, 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 u. n. wants to guarantee universal access to drinking water by 2030. but scientists warned that the global community would need to triple its efforts to achieve that. a twist,

the 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 paris, 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 globe. what a crisis that exist out there. mina. julie has witnessed that crisis herself seeing melting glaciers and eric 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 bring in the cover madonna, his the director of the un university institute for water varnerin health, and he joins me from the un water conference in new york city. sir. as the summit kicks off, the u. s. government promised a $49000000000.00 us dollars for funding to help the global water course will money really be enough to solve this issue. actually today, that would be

a report coming out. that is suggesting that money is not going to solve the problem because besides money, there is a need for better planning for side governance. and understanding that this problem is the problem of common good. so one government alone can not. busy so they don't so and whatever happens anywhere in the world can affect the rest of us living across this planet. what we are hearing is that sensually me out a poor people in the world are currently living in watering secure areas. and this is quite alarming when you say money is not the issue, but planning is what do you mean by that? so so i think we have seen it quite often that in rich countries, i mean rich regions of the world still where there is no shortage of,

of financial resources. lack of planning is resulting in reservoirs that are empty, in growth in, in the water consumption and water culture development and farmers going bankrupt, food security being affected, and these problems, those are not the problems of, of the global south only. they're not the problems of africa or south america or southeast asia. we have seen it also in california. we have seen it in colorado and you know, in this country actually that i'm talking to you from and all of this is because of the lack, of course we didn't certainly see water as a limit and we didn't plan planned for it properly. and we climate change in all the changes that are happening. anthropogenic impacts of human development. the situation is getting worse. now, just last year, one 3rd of talk is tom was submerged in historic floods, leaving millions of people deprived of drinking water. do you expect events like

these to have more open? absolutely, with climate change, we expect more extreme events. we have done the design and planning based on the historical data that are no longer valid. it's very hard for us to move people from one location to another. it happened in, in pakistan. but let's not forget that in germany also we had a, we was, was, was quite costly and isn't the problem of both the global south and the global. and what in the future, i'm afraid the problem is going to get worse. it's still promising that after 46 years, we have, we are getting together here and talking about water and all that you would want to conflict. now you've been following the discussion at the conference. do you expect any real tangible outcome so that's a very good question. i think the secretary general is insisting on the fact that

cheap talk is not a good you know, going to solve the problems of this planet. we have to do things differently. i think water in this, in the next few years would be on, on the the, the agenda many un agencies including f, a yo, concerned with nobody ever job and many other agencies. because now we understand that what we want to change to do with by diversity last night and to flight pollution, the trip the planetary crisis. we have to make sure that we do something for water because water and lack of progress, water men can undermine the progress or whether we have and we can not deliver on the by 2030. if we don't plan for water, carbon madonna, director of the he will university institute for water, environment and health. thank you very much for joining us here on the w news. you

want cdw news coming up next on news asia. what time on military drills tells us about the ireland strategy to stand up to china and an election that will determine a tie lots course for years to come. that's it from me and the news team. i'll be back at the top of the world news update to have out there in berlin from you and the team. thanks for watching. with

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