i know also in book form ah ah, this is d w. news live from berlin. more ammunition for ukraine. european union leaders meeting in brussels are about to endorse a plan that will send a 1000000 rounds of artillery ammunition to keith over the next 12 months. also coming up, tick tock, c o fights for the abs. future the united states is appearing before congress to answer questions about whether the chinese owned platform poses a security risk. and we meet the woman who's run $200.00 marathons to draw

attention to the worst water shortage. she is ending her journey at the united nations in new york, where a major meeting on water resources is our no way. ah, i'm glad else as well come to the program. european union leaders are gathering in brussels for talks on supporting ukraine. expected to endorse a new deal to meet the war torn countries request for more ammunition. the talks follow the chinese president's high profile visit to moscow earlier this week, a strong show of support for vladimir putin and that sparked some concern in europe . ukraine says it needs more ammunition to fend off russian attacks and fast. that's why european 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 far and how long the war relies 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, low selection, 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 it, 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 insist. compromise is on the horizon was gifted anguish. no, not comes. 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 alton vick 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, how from de w, brussels bureau chief, alexandra fernand alexander that you want to send ukraine a 1000000 rounds of artillery ammunition within the next year? will we likely see even more military support? well, i think i'm initial is definitely top priority for you. leaders here and at as watts estonian prime minister colors told us when i ask her whether we are going to see any new announcements or new movement. for instance, on the question of for modern fighter jets. she stressed that ammunition is very important and that her, the decision to deliver or to the decision to, to decide on the plan to deliver

a 1000000 artillery rounds to ukraine. just took 5 weeks. if that is a very, very quickly for the european standards, even though of course it is a long time on the battlefield, but she praised the decision, it was actually initially her idea and her debts are important for the leaders to endorse this plan. here, however, questions remain a because the european stock piles are depleted and to europe needs to massively ramp up production of ammunition when we consider that ukraine burns through 6 to 7000 shells every day. now ukraine's president vladimir zalinski just addressed the summit via video link. what did you have to say? president zelinski spoke to you leaders while riding on a train. and i spoke with an 8 official,

and he told me that sir lensky speech was very emotional. he described the situation on the ground as devastating as you know. he recently visited the front lines near blackmore to the city that has been the target of russian troops for a while now. and to these address was very emotional. he called on leaders to speed up weapons deliveries, to speed up the delivery of ammunition of tangs. he asked them again for long range missiles. he asked them for modern western made fighter jets and he also urged them not to weaken sanctions imposed on russia. malice pretty talk about china support for us oxygen being as just been to moscow to hold talks of thought in calling him a dear friend. how concerned are you leaders, thereby what appears to be deepening ties between moscow and bridging?

some of them seemed to be very concern. i ass gladstone prime minister currents, for instance, whether he thinks that the european union should get tougher on china. and he said, yes, that is what we need right now. he described, she didn't pings visits to moscow on this show of unity that we saw that there as an eye opener and other leaders, however, they seem to be more cautious. luxembourg prime minister battle, for instance, told us that he regards china a competitor, but also still a partner. and he suggested that it would be good for you as president joe biden to sit together with the chinese lead. it should sly it to help and this war. so as you can see, there are different opinions and that might be the reason why there is no real appetite to have a strategic discussion on china and long you member states. and one experts even

told me that that would be like opening pandora stock box at the moment. i'll correspondent alex sullivan. norman, they're reporting from brussel. thank you. summer now keep says up to 13000 ukrainian troops have been killed since the start of russia's invasion. the 2 numbers, county be guessed that in the chaos of war, many death can't be properly documented. as bodies can't be recovered. the soldiers registered as missing leave behind, loved ones, desperate for news, and unable to grieve. a battle ground turned to place of morning by 3 launch really was among those who died, defending the keep suburbs here and motion will answer the monument is exactly in this trench. that's why i, for instance, with would look like the 1st thing i did here before. it was here that my brother

died, incidental samo to the villain. 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 a mess that his brother had died. no further details. but i missed him. you from california, 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 okay to take cold. literally that found a bottle with a pipe inside you to my richard in russian that said to you grainy and soldiers buried here. you know, well christ given weights off like them, other families off to must search for missing loved ones themselves. almost everywhere and was shown 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 water fire to little bit music, audible noble people returning from abode returning from the west of ukraine while who had been absent for a long period of time since the occupation and providing us with new information for you, for prisoners of wool, 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 over the but civilians like pavlo and larissa, la, 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 stone,

pink or a parliament member in a keep school. the air raid sirens just went off. he wants to see how the government can support those of the key. oh, oh, thanks to pavlov. and his mother and every one who acts with them. we found i heroes who are missing. now we know where they died. lawless 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 war, there are certain dates that we cannot divulge we'll do. it won't work very well. we understand that when we, when the base of the more expanded to mow it 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 boundaries presence here and they want to help others to have that too. and so we'll look now at some of the other stories making headlines today. so vakio has a sent a full 5 digits to ukraine with another 9 you in the coming weeks is fulfills a pledge it made last week to donate the mig 29 aircraft and makes the back here. the 2nd natal member of the poland to pledge warplanes for the ukrainian armed forces demonstrators in france of blocked bus terminals, disrupted trained services, and closed some schools. the latest protests of the government, controversial pension reforms. demonstrators of also blocked access to a terminal at paris,

shall the goal airport over the plans to raise the retirement age to $64.00 in israel protested against controversial judicial reforms faced off against police until of even thursday demonstrators. for, for a day of shut down, the latest in a string of protests, they believe the far right government actions are threatening to digital independence. the clock is ticking for chinese social media, tick tock in the united states, beloved by millions of young americans. the video app could soon be altogether band government employees in the u. s. and several other countries have already been ordered to remove it from work devices. there are concerns take talks. parent company may be sharing user data with chinese authorities. the company's c e o is now facing questions from a u. s. congressional committee. 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 have a spread concerns over china as a 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. a millions of americans take talk claims. it has never given data to the chinese government and would

refuse to do so if asked the us and of the governments have been the up from work devices. but there's a push for tighter restrictions. everyone is show here and the see of taked out today. i've sued the company, ceo shows a chew, is on a charm offensive to defend the platform. half of including testifying before the u . s. congress to create, to share, to learn, or just to have some fun. and if lawmakers 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. earlier i have spoken to our correspondence to funds even in washington, and i asked him why this is such a big deal in the us? 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 buy, 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 expected 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 or facebook or instagram or snapshot. when you're on those social platforms, we will make sure to protect this data from you as 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? yeah, this is a 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 us customers with the chinese communist party and the a resume in beijing. it up mm. 7 z months. they're from washington d. c. thank you very much different. and you can watch the live stream of the hearing on the the dw news, youtube channel, a new un report says, climate change and pollution are driving a worldwide shortage of drinking water with hundreds of millions of people facing critical worth at water scarcity, the united nations is holding a special conference in new york to focus attention on a growing crisis. crisis that's prompted one australian woman to set herself a unique challenge. when she noticed that the world was running out of water,

mina gould, he started drumming and she hasn't stopped since i'm running. because at once he take the voices of the people from the front lines of this water cases 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 you and for a 3 day summit, either to discuss ways out of the water crisis is around 2000000000 people across the quarter of the world's population. like access to safe drinking water, any station as a human rights. this is more than a conference on water. it is a conference on to these walls scenes from the perspective of its most important resource. this conference, mastery present the quantum leap in the capacity of member states and international

community to recognize and act upon the vital importance of waters while wild sustainability and as a tool to foster peace and international cooperation. and new you and report shows that the global water shortage is likely to worsen 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 face is a highlight things, the fact that a lack of water impacts more than just people's health. you with 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. v 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 test, the summit kicked off a 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 exists 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 is she opium has named the senior leader of the to grey people's liberation front known as the t p l. f. as head of the interim government for the to grey province. prime minister, i'll be off, man has named get a to read up as the head of to grace interim administration until an election can be held. it comes of the day after parliament removed the t, b l, f from an official list of terrorist organizations, tens of thousands were killed and millions of from their homes in the 2 year to

great conflict which ended with a peace deal find last november. and i'm now joined by william davidson. he's a senior analyst for the europe at the think tank international crisis group was currently in cambridge. now, what does this decision mean for people affected by the fighting? well, i think this decision is another sign that the piece process after the november deal is going reasonably well in terms of implementation. therefore, it should be seen to further consolidate the piece and that for that is obviously a good thing for people on the ground. that doesn't mean by any stretch that all of the political problems, all of the socio economic problem. the 2nd people affected by the war been resolved, but it is sign of the agreement between the federal government partners and

now william, what is the makeup of this new administration? what do we know about its leadership? when the leadership is dominated by the the t p last, the ruling party, oh, to cry and deleted as the federal government has agreed to contact you, read a. he is also a senior member of the t p. s. there is also, looks like it was going to be representation for military commanders and take ry academics and some opposition representatives, hopefully according to many people, some of those opposition actors. it is a t p less dominated effect and they have rejected it as insufficiently inclusive. so a slightly broader base government, one in the past, but something that is still very much cheaper left dominated. so what are the next steps then in the piece process? well, for now, the next step will be establishing this to grey interim administration.

trying to re establish gray and representation at the federal level in parliament, perhaps within the federal government which is being suspended during the conflict and the resumption and increase of corporation, normal corporation between the federal antique governments. there are also some very out tricky, outstanding issues to resolve grey wants to see the return of west intake, right? it's administration, that is an area that was taken over forcefully by i'm har, region during the war. and then also lots of unresolved issues regarding security arrangements, essentially, what will be the size of the great security forces? how many of them will be integrated into the federal army? and these are the types of challenges ahead. and that was william davis, a senior analyst for if you look at the international crisis group. thank you, william. thank you. hello world. first 3 d

printed rock. it has been launched successfully from cape canaveral in the u. s. though it failed to reach all bits. it was the fed attempt, but private aerospace thought that relativity space. the company said the rocket experience an animal anomaly during it's 2nd stage, a separation 3 d printing is seen as a cheap away building spacecraft. and that in new standards for space travel, we were waiting a muslims around the world have been marked in the beginning of the holy month of ramadan. for the next 30 days, devout muslims will refrain from eating or drinking from sunrise to sunset. every region has its own way to celebrate from colorful street lighting, to mouth prayers, and sharing meals with family and friends around 1800000000 muslims. worldwide i expected to observe ramadan, which is intended to bring them closer to god and remind them of the suffering of

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