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appearing before congress to answer questions about whether the chinese own platform poses a security risk. ah, i'm good. how else as well come to the program? european union leaders are gathering in brussels today for talks on supporting ukraine. they're expected to endorse a new deal to meet the war torn countries request for more ammunition. the talks follow the chinese presidents 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 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 dollars, solution economic sanctions to put the pressure on russia to and this war, not everyone is impressed by europe's voe to keep arming. t 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. a 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 is good english not comes. it's really just a matter of finding the right way pragmatically of actually implementing promises the european commission made ago was at some 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 test, a list of 100 e leaders are also holding talks with the united nations secretary general. he

warned such developing economies 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 for on the summer, that's a brandy w. brussels bureau chief are some of a nominee and arcos one and they call it calmly in a cave. welcome to both of you. let's start with you alex 100. the 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 call us made clear that ammunition is the top priority of you leader. it's 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 need to consider that according to estimates, ukraine uses up to $210000.00 shells per month. 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, nick, over to you, what was florida? zalinski is message when he spoke why a video linked to eulu. this survey 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 get

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 goal 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 time frame . that's the view from care of. interestingly, a communist made the rounds, hearing key of a lot has been by one of jimmy's biggest on 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 rooks 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 alex, let's also talk about a china and it's support for russia. pain has just gone to moscow to hold talks with put in calling. i'm a dear friend. how concerned are you leaders there in brussels about what appears to be deepening ties between moscow and beijing. while 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, a debt. if any one believe dad's china is impartial now, they see that china is citing with russia. other leaders, however, i'm more cautious. luxembourg prime minister battle, for instance, told us that if 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 award. so as you can see, there are different opinions and that is presently the reason why, why 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 of respondents or some phenomena in

brussels and the calmly and key. thank you to you both tom not have a look at some of the other stories making headlines to day. so back here says it has sent for fighter jets to ukraine with another 9 do in the coming weeks. this fulfills a pledge it made last week to donate the make 29 air craft and makes love acura the 2nd natal member after poland to pledge warplanes for the ukrainian armed forces demonstrate as in france of blocked bass terminals, disrupted trained services, and closed some schools in the latest protests over the government's controversial pension reforms, demonstrators have also blocked access to a terminal at paris. shall the gola bought over the plans to raise the retirement age to 64. 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 banned.

government employees in the u. s. and several other countries have already been ordered to remove it from work devices. there are concerns, so tick talks, parent company may be sherry user data with chinese authorities. the company's c e o is right 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 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 is raised concerns in washington. so look, we've express 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 bite 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 is 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 take talk today. i've sued the company, ceo shows the chew, is on a charm offensive to defend the platform was half including testifying before the u . s. congress to create a 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. did of his correspondence to fancy ones in washington told me why this is such a big deal in the us? well, there are 3 reasons. 150000000 active users in the united states. that's 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 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 has 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 spend in this hearing from the committee members to was mr. chair, 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 uncovered 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, 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 representatives 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, hess, 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 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 sell them 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 months there live from washington? thank you very much, the fun. and that's it from a me and the news team. i love an update for you at the top of the i do not go away here as vanity has news asia for you just after a short break. and of course as always. oh website for more news and lots of analysis at d, w dot com on behalf of us in berlin from me and the new scene. thanks for do you like it? do you want it? okay, then buckle up, put the pedal to the.