ah ah ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin to night, more ammunition for you crave european union leaders are meeting in brussels and are said to endorse a plan that will send a 1000000 rounds of artillery ammunition to key over the next 12 months. also coming up across france, violent protests against pension reforms, demonstrators demanding that the government put plans to raise the retirement age

from 62 to 64 on hold. and the un soundly the alarm over the state of the world's supply of clean drinking water. it's spent almost half a century since delegates gathered to focus on this problem. what lessons is, if any, have we learned? ah, i break up is good to have you with this on this thursday. european union leaders are gathering tonight in brussels 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 followed, the chinese president's high profile visit to moscow. earlier this week, a strong show of support for vladimir putin that has sparked even more worries here 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, how far, and how long the war relies will is, or will this be enough or, or not? so that's why we need to have and use all the tools that we have. political pressure validity, oscillation, economic sanctions, to put the pressure on russia to and this war, not everyone is impressed by europe's vo 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 war 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, it may be 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, know overtly on the side of russia. and this is actually a very big challenge and 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 change, its german chancellor, olaf schultz insists. compromise is on the horizon as gifted english. no, not 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 this has a list of who tim 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 he be taking the lead on finding solutions for a journey by our corresponded jack barrick. he is at that summit in brussels. good evening to you jack. so the european union, it wants to send you great, a 1000000 rounds of ammunition within the next year. are we going to see more military support beyond that? well, that's the big question. how long can the european union keep doing this? and what's interesting brand is in this plan for those 1000000, ryans, there's also a plan for the european union to go collectively, at least the 17 countries that have signed up to it, to go and start buying ammunition together. and also

a plan to increase production in the european union. one of the things that we know with the war in ukraine is that countries have been sending, but a lot of countries haven't been telling us exactly how much they've been sending because they don't want other partners other players in the world to know how much that stop power depleting, but it's clear with this plan that a lot of them are starting to get a bit nervous about that. and that's why as part of this agreement, while ukraine says it needs the ammunition while the you partners won't be able to send it. they know that they need to increase production and increase purchasing as well. the ukranian president pulled him insulin ski today delivered a video message to the salvage, and it's clear he would like to see more weapons. what else did he have to say? yeah, an interesting one brought him his zalinski is now a regular feature of video cool from him last time he was actually here, but pretty much every summit since the, the war began. zalinski has addressed the e u leaders. we understand that this time it was done from

a train and that he said the situation on the battlefield is increasingly difficult and desperate. and he said that they need to be a speed up of the delivery of ammunition and tangs. and that he asked for long range missiles and modern fight and fighter jets to be delivered by the e partners. i willing, they'll be able to do that. how able, financially, they'll be able to do it. that's the big question. but that's been the demand from the ukrainians for a long time. now. we know that the metric labor, the foreign minister, attended the foreign ministers meeting earlier this week, and he said he needs 3 things, ammunition, ammunition, ammunition. while they got the hardware on the ground in ukraine, they don't have an against fire in it. they went when the war. yeah, they'd like to have some fighter jets on top of that. let's talk about what we've seen in russia this week. we saw the visit to a bi. she didn't think that the chinese president with vladimir putin, both of these leaders, is saying that they are closer than ever. does that have leaders there in brussels, where you are more worried about this?

what, where, what direction that's going to take this more in that certainly a way and that talking about it we heard from the latvian prime minister christian his car is he had an interesting comment on his way into these meetings. he said, china's in the driving seat, not russia. and the question is where china wants to drive the relationship. the question is where the china could be sucked, play some sort of mediating broke a role. they put forward a kind of peace agreement, a suggestion that they would be able to play that mediating ro, ukraine's, and very much in favor of it because of high place the chinese all with the russians. and as another angle to this. and this actually was being spoken about at the moment at this summer. and that's the fact that the, the market of the european union as it tries to green itself, is looking to outsource, looking to produce green technologies, things like solar panels, things like electric vehicles. we heard that just the discussion in rosie's report about the buffalo for the ending of combustion engines. and the need for electric vehicles in china has so much production,

capital capacity on the lithium to produce that kind of thing. to as china increases in their power of that in the european union is still a tight site. does it concern that that could influence some of the decisions relating to china and the russian relationship? so it's extremely complicated. geopolitically an elite is a considering and locked in to those kinds of discussions as we speak. brent w jack, bear with the latest knife of brussel. jack, thank what he says. up to $13000.00 ukrainian troops had been killed since the start of russia's invasion last year. the true number can only be yes, dad, in the chaos of war. many deaths can't be properly documented. as bodies can't be recovered. the soldiers registered as missing. they leave behind the loved ones desperate for news. loved ones who were unable to grieve. a battle ground turn to place of morning by 3 luna ashley was among those who died, defending the key of suburbs here and motion alonza.

the monument is exactly in this trench. that's why offense that with would look like that's the 1st thing i did to your board. it was here that my brother died this a little some o 2 was a 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 but i missed him. you shall 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 territorial defense, which is an okay to take cold worsley that found a bottle with a pipe inside which in russian that said, oh to ukrainian soldiers 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 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 are 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. well, who had been absent for a long period of time since the occupation and providing extra 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, noah. 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 still 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 everyone who acts with them, we found i heroes who were missing. now we know where they died. well, this was time what they wanted to kinda look at 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, well there is a will, there are certain date that we cannot divulge those will do. it won't work for

a we understand that when we, when the base of the more expanded to law is 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 nicoli. every other week pavlo 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 too . when a go now is my colleague mike thunder who filed that report. he joins us from common tourist in the eastern ukraine. max, tell us a little bit about the initiative that pablo and his mother have started. i mean, how much of a problem is this? read france. i was estimated that ever since the beginning of the war, roughly 15000 soldiers went missing. so you can imagine quite

a few families have gone through something similar. and the puzzle and his mother were able to help other families more than 50 families from the key region to actually find closure, find information about the whereabouts about these, that their family members to, to, to, to help them cope essentially. and they're doing this through some sort of investigative work come through leads. they're following just to give an example. in some cases they try to find out who these guys were fighting with and try to find out information from them. or in the case of puzzles, brother body for example. um he managed to track his phone and find the region where this phone was last located and went through the hospital. so you can go through hospitals and works and tried to find people out there. but this is, and i mean something a terrible work that a family member, grieving family are worried to death about their son or their daughter shouldn't have to do so that's why they started this initiative. they're trying to file an automatic database in which information will be pooled, in which for example,

a commander can file information that a soldier is not at his or her comment post. and then they're an automatic notification will be sent out to relevant some groups or people, for example, military authorities, police or loved ones, and m. yeah. so this could significantly speed up the process and it's really necessary to have an automatic process here because at the moment some officials are really overwhelmed. there's lots of bureaucracy. and in some cases, we've heard that loved ones or have had to wait for 8 months or even longer to find it to get certain certificates. in the long time they been trying to begin to have closure in the tragedy like that the, you're currently in the eastern city, of course, near the front line. i mean, what's the situation? what are people they're telling you? right. so we had the chance to meet with an infantry group holding a frontline position on a few kilometers away from black mountain. as many of you know,

the viewers will know this is symbolic city that infamous symbolic city that has been pounded by the russians for months. now that have been trying to take fighting, there has been quite fierce. but the soldiers we were actually talking to world telling us about moods has to stand in the city can and cannot be given up. and right now from what i'm taking away there as the fighting spirit, the moralist seems to be. so what i have is not thunder reporting tonight from chromos worse than eastern ukraine. max. thank you. where's the look now at some of the other stories that are making headlines around the world. slovakia says it has sent for fighter jets to ukraine with another 9 due in the coming weeks. and this fulfills a pledge that it made last week to donate the mig 29 aircraft and it makes it's lavon here. the 2nd nato member after poland to pledge warplanes for the ukrainian

armed forces, the ceo of tick tock is facing a usb rational grilling over security concerns. while makers in washington worried that the social media platform, which is chinese owned, could be passing on users data to the chinese government, potentially posing a security threat to the united states. back here in europe, france have seen a 9th day, a protest against the government's plans to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64 . in some cities, marches turned violent with police using tear gas. we understand that train and air travel was disrupted today due to wide spread strikes at the heart of the french capital. thousands have taken to the streets for yet another day, trying to pressure their president in man, when my call to dropped the reform,

which would raise the minimum age of retirement from $62.00 to $64.00. and the crowd, many are still decades away from retirement. is may represent units, right? like it's a philosophy of light. do we want to work? and so we're 64 at large knots, you know, and i just do not but not all the protests had such a relaxed atmosphere. police continued to detain protesters with hundreds. now arrested, since the demonstrations broke out. some $5000.00 ride police deployed in paris, firing tear gas into the crowds. was hollow, she's got lots of it will be here until the reform is removed. we're not tired when not running out of steam and i think it's going to get a little bit tougher. but

h mobilization will be there, including every day and even in the evening at night in the morning, we have to block everything. whatever happens, protesters say they are not backing down or you want to go now to our very own at least the we, she is in paris. listen of these are the 1st nationwide strikes since this engine reform was pushed through by the government or by the president last week on wire or people. so angry wire, the still so angry i should say. you never and it's extraordinary. what happened to day you hot between one and 3500000 people taking to the streets to say no to this pension reform that is about twice as many as during the last nationwide day of strikes last week before as you said, the reform was pushed through and you're right, they were really angry. they were angry by the government method. the fact that the

government, a man my call, the president used this extraordinary constitutional power to push the reform through parliament without of aid and further and get by in my course interview with friends, journalists yesterday, where he did not show any empathy for people as people were saying afterwards, and he also was, he refused to back down and showed as they called it this same for his own people. well, the pension reform, it's already a done deal and obviously it wasn't enough to get enough votes to break down the government. so these protests, i mean i, i understand there may be anchor there, but what can these purchase? still a cheap that sell options, you know, 1st of all, legally speaking, and the reform is now with the constitutional council. the constitutional council might say that reform or parts of it are not constitutional and rejected. and also

people who are hoping for a referendum as parliamentarians have launched an initiative for such a referendum. but that will take lots of lots of months, exit actually to come into effect. so practice as 1st of all, are determined to continue to demonstrate and just increase the pressure pressure, hoping that the government will back down the w lisa louis. but the latest light from paris, lisa, thank you. israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu has double down on his bush for judicial reform. a never that a sparked nationwide pro just to spite speculation that he might abandon the reforms after unease within his own governor coalition. in a televised address just moments ago, netanyahu said only that he plans to do everything to calm the situation and bring cohesion critic, say, the overhaul of the legal system is a threat to israel's democracy. and that's good at our very own tanya kramer. she

city by force in jerusalem. it on. yeah, exactly. what did netanyahu under say just now? he also has a country with lots of protests yang, the scene to day again, another day of protests. also a lot of arrests during the day or during those protests and the pressure it seems, had been mounting on the government on prime minister benjamin netanyahu. also what we're hearing from within his only could party from those are saying we need to slow down a bit and those who are saying know those who want to slow down, they should actually resign. so prime minister netanyahu addressed the nation tonight, he tried to find you know, words for both of the supporters and for the opponents. he said he wants to find a solution that everybody should address each other's fears. and, and he made a point in saying that he would make sure that the civil liberties and human rights

would be protected. he especially mentioned this very controversial bill about the over by it clause, which was a simple majority would be enough to override a law. and he said, you would make sure that those will be protected. but again, i'm not sure that this will be enough for the opponents. i'm wondering what does this mean? does this mean that he is, is pulling back or that, or he is just giving political lip service now i don't think he is pulling back. i mean, from what we understand. and there had been a sort of of what about the support as of this traditional overhaul, a called a, a compromise, been offered beginning of the week as saying that they will push now for one of the bills, which is a very controversial part of this legislation. which should be possibly, as we understand voted on in the 2nd and 3rd reading. that's what needed said. so it becomes a law. and next week, before the kinessa actually goes into the pauses,

then are there the, the jewish holidays, and that is a bill that would determine how the way that judges are selected. and then the other bills would then be taken up again. once the kinessa come back comes back at the end of april after the jewish holidays. but again, the opponents have already said this is some kind of salami tactic and they're not really satisfied and we are seeing really more and more protesters coming out. also among the military reservists, and that is very, very some for many here. what is happening here or on the streets? either he's done you agreement with the ladies tonight from jerusalem, tanya, thank you. the united nation is warning, good. clean water is in short, supply around the globe because of over consumption, unsustainable use, and global warming. and especially un conference in new york. secretary general antonio parish called from major commitments to ensure that everyone has access to drinking water and sanitation before the end of this decade. sorry,

my next guest is awesome. this was professor, this was a hippe. i got your name correct there. professor at the university of glasgow, he was the chief advisor of the 1st you in water conference that took place back in 1977. it's good to have you on the program as this somebody kicks off of the u. s. government is promising close to $50000000000.00 of funding to help the global water crisis and we will money be enough to solve this. not really name problem is not money, but tech for the countries to develop a financial model. do have a valid and function of the water supply and that is not being addressed to and we don't get functional financial model. the hope for lagging water and sanitation on a continuous macy's and not vaguely. we heard today from the head of the un,

good terrorist saying that quote, people are draining the human life blood through them, pyrrhic, over consumption. and what about our life styles? what has to, to change in rich countries? if, if we want to have enough water for every one, this is not only issue between leech and the poor countries. each country has to look after their own water management. these, all these talk up, walk, have scarcity. i'm afraid the warranty is not having a water scarcity because of physical lack of resources, but the world is having the lcd of what a problem because of poor mismanagement, both in the each countries and in the poor countries. and we know what to do. but the politicians have very little interest. after the new york meeting is over, the media interest in water will die down. and all everything will be it's

tempest and people. it's been almost 50 years since the last conference. have we wasted almost half a century? that is correct. we should have looked at why that targets the last 40 years have not met what we had doing wrong at this conference. they didn't do that and basically doing the same just encouraging countries to meet the target for request people to provide funds. and basically when i look at it over the 50 years time spent, it's will my thinking it is time. whoa, whoa, whoa, had experience and that's not going to work. well, let's, let's, i'm going to say i hope that you're wrong, but i'm, but i'm afraid that you're, you're with, i hope i did it wrong. but i don't think so. professor, it's good to have you, but we appreciate your time. we appreciate you sharing your valuable experience

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