ah ah ah ah, this is dw news lie from berlin, more ammunition for ukraine. european union leaders are meeting in brussels and are set to endorse a plan that will send a 1000000 rounds of artillery ammunition to keep over the next 12 months. also coming up, take talks boss fights for the social video apps future in the united states is

appearing before congress to answer questions about whether the chinese old platform poses a security risk to the u. s. and a further step towards peace in northern ethiopia. as an interim government is appointed in the t grier region. ah, i'm gabelle as well come to the program. european union leaders are gathering in her brussels to day for talks on supporting ukraine. they're expected to endorse a new deal to meet the war torn countries requests 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 that sparked some concern in europe. ukraine says it needs more ammunition to fend off russian attacks and fast. that's

why europeans 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 we lost 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, political isolation, 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 moving right now over to the, on the side of russia. and this is actually a very big challenge and a 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 change, it's german chancellor, olaf schultz insists. compromise is on the horizon is gifted anguish, 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 this has a list of 100 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'd be taking the lead on finding solutions from on the summer to answer brandy, w, brussels beer, chiva, some of norman and our correspondent. they call it calmly in a cave. welcome to both of you. so let's start with you. one example that you wants to send you crime a 1000000 rounds of ammunition within the next year. we'll, we'll actually see even more military support. i put this a question to, it's tanya and prime minister colors asking her whether we might see any movement. for instance, on the matter of modern fighter jets. as you know,

ukraine has been requesting them for quite a while, but cause made clear that ammunition is the top priority of the leader here. and actually the plan to provide ukraine would a 1000000 artillery rounds was her plan initially. so she was very happy that leaders, we were able to agree on that, and that, that they are going to endorse this plan here. however, we should not be not eve because this goal is very ambitious. we just needs to consider that according to estimates. ukraine uses up to 210000 shells. immense, and the european defense industry can only produce 25 thousands in the same time frame. so europe will have to massively ramp up production now. and nick, over to you, what was a lot of as a landscape message when he spoke by a video link to eulu this to their people who heard that speech said it was very

emotional, very emotive. he was talking about his experiences at the front lines. he's just been in don bass and is now on his way to the south to had a song. and i think he's really just calling for haste. this has been the story of the last year, the ukrainians, pulling their hair out, basically convinced that the europeans have sympathetic they might be to the ukrainian cause. just don't get how badly this ammunition is needed and how fast it needs to happen. they're still living in their own kind of bureaucratic timeframe. that's the view from key of interestingly, a common that's made the rounds here in care of a lot has been by one of jimmy's biggest arm producers of the boss of hind metalli who says that his capacity is only booked up for 2 thirds of what he could produce this year because the bureaucracy, the gum brooks in europe just hasn't been able to get those contracts out. and to give him the certainty that those rounds we bought. so lots of room for improvement there. certainly as, let's also talk about a china and it's support for russia being has just gone to moscow to hold horse was

put in collie. i'm a dear friend. how concerned are you leaders there and brussels about what appears to be deepening ties between moscow and beijing. well, some of them, at least seem to be very concerned lat, can prime minister occurrence on a instance. he told us that she didn't pings visits to moscow, was an eye opener at that. if any want to believe that china is impartial now, they see that china is citing with russia. other leaders, however, a more cautious luxembourg prime minister battle, for instance, told us that he regards china competitor an arrival, but also still a partner. and he suggested that it might be good for you, and you asked president joe biden to sit down with the chinese leader to see whether they can work together to help and this war. so as you can see, there are different opinions and that is probably the reason why a white no one here has really an appetite to start as to

a digit discussion on china right now. and one expert even told me that that would be like opening pandora's box at the moment. i'll respond and some are some of a moment in brussels and the com leon keith, thank you to you both. now keith says up to $13000.00 ukrainian troops have been killed since the start of russia invasion. the 2 number can only 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 battleground turn to place of morning. by 3 lord actually was among those who died, defending the key of 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 was here that my brother died. some old 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. pavlo received an s. m s that his brother had died no further details. i missed him. you for calling for lauren, im a spoke with that's tram for 2 months. we communicated with various services that might have some information on and we found him territorial defense, which is okay to take cold. initially that found a bottle with a piped inside and richard and russian that said oil to ukrainian soldiers, a buried hair, rolled crowns, keen weights off like them. other families often must search for missing,

loved ones themselves, almost everywhere, and was shewn. 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 are providing us with new information for you. both prisoners of war also testify, but mostly the security service of ukraine works that well. but 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. today 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 r. o, thanks to pavlov and his mother and every one who works with them. we found i heroes who were missing. now we know where they died last name or the one as a single 56 people so far. but to improve the process, they want to create a centralized database where information from the military, governments and families is automatically pulled a step forward. even if war time security means not everything can be shared. 14 enough. okay. year while there is a war, there are certain data that we cannot divulge those will do. 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 with dishes, it is we are blue sky hickey's nicoli. every other week pavlo 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 to. the clock is ticking for the chinese social media, tick tock in the united states. beloved by millions of young americans, the video app could soon be banned altogether. government employees in the us and several other countries have already been ordered to remove it from work devices. there are concerns tig talks. parent company may be sharing user data with chinese authorities accompany c o. as right now facing questions from the u. s. congressional committee. it has more than a 1000000000 active uses. and over 150000000 in the us alone.

but take talks, future in america is uncertain. the populace 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 expressed concerns over china as a potential use of software platforms that could endanger or threaten america, safety and their national security. so that is the presence concern. that is why we have called on congress to take action. the op is owned by the chinese company by dance, and we know that one critic say that beijing could false take talk to hand over information. a 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 what devices. but there's a push for tighter restrictions. every one is show here and the see of take talk to day. i'm suit the company c o shows a chew is on a charm offensive to defend the platform was including testifying before the us congress to create a share to learn or just to have some fact. 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. and we can now go live. so what are the corresponding, stephens, the ones who has been following the story close least of antique talk is a social media video app that got big on dance videos and especially beloved by,

by kids in the u. s. at the same time, the companies under scrutiny by the government wise, is such a big deal. well, there are 3 reasons. 150000000 active users in the united states. as a massive number. other tech companies like and social media platforms like facebook slash meta face time, a snap chad, a google, instagram, all of them they would dream of those numbers and tick tock is gone through the roof and they are not really the u. s. companies with similar platforms are not really performing. so that's massive number 2 tech industry or the tech companies in the us are under scrutiny and suffer from a little bit of mistrust from specifically our politicians. because mom, there is the thought that they are becoming too powerful and that they collect massive amounts of data. now the difference of course is, and that is number 3 byte dance, and that is the chinese parent company of take talk the problem and the concern

here by us politicians, by the white house, by the, by administration, sit national security. how much excess does by dance slash hess, the chinese regime in beijing, or the communist chinese communist party on those data of 160000000 americans. and that is the big concern. now take those boss shoe is testifying in front of the congressional committee as we speak. and here's an interesting sound bite of that. he said earlier from that i want to talk to you about in a moment. let's have a quick listen. like i said, i have not had any discussion with chinese government officials. i don't know the political affiliation of everybody. i speak to us, i can't verify the statement. how did the committee react to this rather ambiguous statement? well, let me phrase this where there is no love spent in this hearing from the committee members towards mr. cher issue or she showed it there is no really good answer for

him and, and saying like, well i never talk to anybody in china that really doesn't cut it for the committee members. and a lot of politicians he had on kind of for the white house either there is a national security concern here, and that is by american intelligence services and national security agencies were involved with this. they are, can't, they can't get tired of re emphasizing look, this data is accessible for the chinese government and we don't really are cuz we're not really comfortable of it letting this happen because they can do anything they want with this. and that is the core problem. so if the take talks he or says he never talked to any a chinese government representative while that doesn't really cut it, because everybody knows by dance is a chinese tech company. and it is chinese policy law that the government has and authorities, they have access to their data. they have to make it somewhat when asked at least

knowledgeable to the government. how would you describe the atmosphere at the hearing today? as i said, not re friendly towards the tick tock see or not a lot of this is not tick. tock, manage something which you normally have really, really seldom here on the hill or in washing, nor in the united states. unity between republicans and democrats. there's really a united front grilling the tick tock, c e o, and asking really tough questions. there's more to ask than just like how safe is actually your data and what you're telling us here. do we believe that my assessment is he can actually say whatever he wants. it's a done deal in terms off that politicians involved in questioning him on this committee and across those parties do not believe tick. tock is safe in terms of national security for the united states. didn't stephens a month there live from washington?

thank you very much, the fun. and he could watch the live stream of the hearing on our d. w. news, youtube channel. and we got ethiopia, which has named the senior leader of the t grey people's liberation front, known as the t p. s. as head of an interim government for the to grow province. prime minister, our be off. net has name to get to read up as the head of tick rise interim administration until an election can be held. this comes just a day after parliament removed 30 p l f. from an official list of terrorist organizations, tens of thousands were killed and millions forced from their homes in the 2 year to great conflict, which ended with a peace deal signed last november. and what does that decision mean for the people affected by the fighting and put that question to william davison. he's a senior analyst for the future at the think tank international risk group crisis

group. 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 and sign 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? what leadership is dominated by the the t p last, the ruling party of or to cry. and the leader that the federal government is agreed

to attach. you read a, he's also a senior member of the t p. s. there is also looks like there is going to be representation for military commanders and take ry academics and some opposition representatives hopefully. but according to many people went to some of those opposition actors. it is a t p last 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 t p. s 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 a gray in 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 re governments. there also some very out tricky, outstanding issues to resolve grey wants to see the return of west integrate it's administration and that is an area that was taken over forcefully by 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 the opium at the international crisis group. thank you. william. thank you. the you and is warning that clean water is in short supply around the world because of over consumption, unsustainable use, and global warming. and especially un conference in new york, secretary general antonio, we'll tell us call from major commitments to ensure that everybody has access to

drinking water and sanitation before the end of this decade. well copy madonna is the director of the you and university institute for water environment and healthy john earlier from the you and water conference in new york city. i asked him if money will be enough to solve this urgent 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 and whatever happens anywhere in the world can affect the rest of us living across this planet. what we are hearing is that sensually out of 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 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 the water consumption and water demand, culture development and farmers going bankrupt of food security being affected. and these problems, those are not the problem of the global south only there and all 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 and because

of the lack of what we did and certainly the water as the limits. and we didn't plan plan for a problem with climate change and all the changes that are happening to fax with human development. the situation is getting worse. now, just last year, one 1st of talk, as 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, 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 of many un agencies including yo, concerned with a w, a child and many other agencies. because now we understand that why do we want to fly climate change to do with my diversity last night and to flight pollution? the tricky planetary crisis, we have to make sure that we do something for water because water and lack of

progress. warranty by men can undermine the progress whether we have and we cannot deliver on the 2030. if we don't plan for water that was covered madonna, director of the u. n. u n. university institute for was it and bonded to watching dw news up next is d w. news asia don't miss that. i'm gabrielle 1st in berlin from me and the world news team here. i support ah with

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