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. he's appearing before congress to answer questions about whether the chinese own platform poses a national security risk and across france, violent protests against pension reforms, demonstrators demanding that the government put his plans to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64 on hope. ah, i regard to our viewers watching on p b. s in the united states into all of you around the world. welcome european union leaders in brussels have endorsed a new deal to supply more ammunition to ukraine. their summit is taking place after the chinese president's high profile visit to moscow. earlier this week, that was a strong show of support for vladimir putin and 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 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 or, 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 every one 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 a, if a 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, know overtly 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 changes, german chancellor, olaf schultz insists. compromise is on the horizon is get its english more not guns . it's really just a matter of finding the right way pragmatically of actually implementing promises. the european commission made a goes at so 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 as a list 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 he be taking the lead on finding solutions. when he w jack parish, he is in brussels. he george be earlier and i asked him if there will be even more military support for you. great. 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 want to be able to send it, they know that they need to increase production and increase purchasing as well. the ukranian president will to miss zalinski 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 demetrius good labor. the foreign minister attended the for ministers meeting earlier this week and he said he needs 3 things, ammunition, ammunition, ammunition, while they got hardware on the ground in ukraine, they don't have an in king's 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 we're, what direction that's going to take this more in that certainly away and that

talking about it, we heard from the latvian prime minister christiane his car is he made 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 stuck, play some sort of mediating broke a role. they put food, a kind of piece agreement up 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 there's another angle to this. and essentially what's being spoken about at the moment at this summit, 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 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. so as china increases in their power of thought in the european union needs to look high side

as a concern that that could influence some of the decisions relating to china and the russian written it. so it's extremely complicated. geopolitically an elite is a considering and locked into those kind of discussions as we speak. brent did abuse jack there with the latest knife of brussels, jack thinking what keep says up to 13000 ukrainian troops have been killed since the start of brushes. invasion the true number of course, can only be guessed at the chaos of war. many deaths cannot be properly documented . bodies can't be recovered. the soldiers registered as missing leave behind loved ones who were desperate for news and who were unable degree. a battle ground turned to place of morning by 3 luna really was among those who died defending the keep suburbs here and motion along the monument is exactly in this trench. that's why offense did with would yeah,

that's the 1st thing i did we oh it was here that my brother died. who said that all some oh to was a 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 but i missed 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 initially. that found a bottle with a pipe inside in richmond, russian that said, oh to ukrainian soldiers buried here. hello. hello christ human rights off like them. other families off the 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 are struggling to fight for what a prior to little bit music, audible noble 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 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, 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 those 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. well, this was time we'll get 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, well there is a will, there are certain dates that we cannot divulge in at grand work, very humble though. we understand that when we, when the base of the more expanded to more oh, 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 to somebody for the wi max. it's under his file that reports and told us a bit more about that initiative and how wide spread this problem is. i will. and his mother were able to help other families more than 50 families from the kia region to actually find closure, find information about the whereabouts about the 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 buttery. for example, 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 there. but this is, and i mean something a terrible work that a family member, grieving family to worry 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 groups or people, for example, military authorities, police, or loved ones and em yet. so this could significantly speed up the process and it's really necessary to have an automatic process here because at the momentum, 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 try to begin to have closure in the tragedy like that the you're currently in the eastern city of comma taurus, near the front line. i mean, what's the situation? what are people they are 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 our no viewers will know, this is symbolic city that infamous the symbolic city that has been pounded by the russians for months. now that have been trying to take a fighting, there has been quite fierce. but the soldiers we were actually talking to, well telling us about moods has to stand in the city can cannot be given up um and right now from what i'm taking away there as the fighting spirit, the moralist seems to be so quite high. he's like thunder reporting tonight from

chromosome in eastern ukraine. max. thank you. and here's a look now some of the other stories that are making headlines around the world. slovakia says it has it sent for fighter jets to ukraine with another 9. do the coming weeks. is fulfills a pledge that it made last week to donate the it mig 29 aircraft and it makes lamarche the 2nd native country after poland to pledge more planes for the gradient armed forces. a british court has found a senior nigerian politician and his wife guilty of trafficking, a man to the u. k, to provide his kidney for their sick daughter, e k. equal weary motto. the former deputy president of the jury of senate was accused of exploiting a st. trader from logos for a few $1000.00 in the u. n. is warning that clean water is in short supply around the world because of over consumption, unsustainable use,

and global warming. and especially you and conference in new york, secretary general and tony of a terrorist called from major commitments to ensure that everyone has access to drinking water and sanitation. before the end of this decade, australia has announced more details of a referenda that it will hold later this year on indigenous rights to vote, proposes setting up a special committee in parliament to advance the rights of aboriginal and torres strait islanders. they represent about 3 percent of australia's population of nearly 26000000 now to washington and tick tock, a rare moment of bipartisan agreement today over the potential security threat posed by the popular video sharing app, tick tock. now the ceo today facial of a grilling by us lawmakers who are worried that the app, which is chinese owned, could be passing on users data to the chinese government questions also focused on whether some content on tick tock is harmful,

especially to teenagers. the u. s. is considering banning the app completely tough times for tick tock. let's go now to our washington correspondent different simons. he's been following the story for us is deaf on tick tock. it a social media platform that got big on dance videos is especially beloved by young people at the same time, the company is under scrutiny by the government. why is this such a big deal in the us? you called at a hearing grilling. it was a butchery. it was horrible, but to that later. so why is that a big deal? numbers and with this comes power numbers 150000000 active users on tick tock in the united states alone. that is huge. this is basically for all other tech companies in the united states, say twitter, snap chad on facebook slash matter. what have you? that's la la and dreamland in numbers and tick tock has it. they want to have it,

they don't get it. tick tock has it. now the problem here is, of course, is tick tock able to separate itself entirely entirely on every form and level from china or the chinese regime slash the communist party in china. and the answer in lot of minds of the politicians here. those who are in the hearing, but also in the why does this know they're not able to do this and for that they are a security risk to the united states. why? because they have access to so much data. and as soon as they have it, the chinese can do whatever they want with it. and it's out of the hand of the united states problem. it's a big problem and we know the ceo a bit, he felt the heat to day. i mean i was be nice when i said he got grilled. it's more like a verbal butchering to day, wasn't it? yes, absolutely. it was brutal. i can't imagine anybody wanted to be in the shoes of the take taxi or today because i mean it at some point really bordered

absurdity. why and in what sense? the committee committee members here were kind of pre positioned already. they did not believe anything that picked up so you could tell them. and what about his efforts to really separate the data to not collect a lot of data to safeguard it by given it in storing it here in america with another tech company, oracle, they didn't believe any of this. they were just outright say, look, you can say whatever you want here, and you're doing a miserable job saying what you want to hear, by the way, that's what they basically transferred to him. you can say whatever you want and we don't believe you anyway. we protect our children, we protect the national security tech tock, tick tock, sorry to say, but it looks like they are looking at a lot of problems or long and lengthy court case about their been yes or no. yeah, it definitely appears disaster for the company. the seo today that's for sure,

stephens, i'm in washington is always jeff and thank you. back here in europe, france have seen a 9th day of protests against pension reforms that will raise the minimum retirement age from $62.00 to $64.00. in some cities, marches turned violent. police used to tear gas train in air, travel was disrupted, 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 drop 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. disney men represent humans, right? like it's a philosophy of life. do we want to work? and so we're 64 or not, you know,

and i just 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 hello, she's got don says it will be here until the reform is removed. we're not tired, we're not running out of steam. and i think it's going to get a little bit tougher, but at each mobilization will be there, including every day and even in the evening at night in the morning. we have to block everything. whatever happens, protestors say they are not backing down in evidence 1st. nationwide they have joints are corresponded. lisa louis and parish told me why people are still

fighting so hard against these pension reforms that were pushed through last week and i ran it extraordinary. what happened today you had 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, there 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, my course interview with friends, journalists, a yesterday way, did not show any empathy for people as people were saying afterwards, and he also was, he refused to back down and shoot as they corded this saying for his own people. well, the pension reform, it's already a done deal and,

and obviously it wasn't enough to get enough votes to break down the government. so these protests, i mean i, i understand there, there may be anger there, but what can these purchases still achieve that is still up since, you know, 1st of all, legally speaking, and they reform is now with the constitutional counsel. the constitution of council might say that reform or parts of it are not constitutional and rejected. and also people who are hoping for a referendum parliamentarians have launched an initiative for such a referendum, but that will take lots of lots of the month actually 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 with the latest light from paris. lisa, thank you. is really prime minister benjamin at yahoo has doubled down on his push

for judicial reform, which has sparked nationwide pro just despite speculation that he might abandon the reforms after unease within his governor coalition. and it televised addressed this evening. netanyahu said only that he will do everything to calm the situation and to bring cohesion. critics say that the overhaul of the legal system is a threat to israel's democracy, are corresponded tanya cramer in jerusalem, followed that yahoo statement, forrest and she told me what prompted him to make today's speech young 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 at the nation tonight, he tried to find you know, words for both, for 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 i had class, 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, but 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 supporters of this traditional overhaul,

or called her compromise. been offered a 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 goals into the pauses, then are there the, the jewish holidays, and that is a bill that would, are 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 boring, some for many here. what is happening here or on the streets?

either he's tanya agreement with the late tonight from jerusalem. tanya, thank you. before we go, here's a reminder of our top story. european union leaders and brussels have approved an increase in military aid to you crave. the plan will see ukraine received $1000000.00 rounds of artillery ammunition over the next year. the talks comments concerns grow in europe over china's recent show of support. for russia, you're watching the w news after a short break. i'll be back to take you through the day. stick around. we'll be right back with with

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