implies i'm no longer afraid, i want to be in the newspapers, americans, when you're feeling more forgiving. you realize that coach is just another way of living. i you ready to meet with dad and then join me. wait. just do it on b, w. ah ah ah ah, this is the w news, live it from berlin to night. more ammunition for you. great. european union leaders meeting in brussels endorsed a plan that will sit a 1000000 rounds of artillery ammunition to keep over the next 12 months. also coming up across france, violent protests against pension reforms, demonstrators demanding that the government, but plans to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64 on hope.

ah, my break off is good to have you with this in on this thursday. we begin with the european union leaders. they are meeting 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 it 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 for or not. so that's why we need to have and use all the tools that we have. political pressure, validity, dollars, 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. 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 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 goes at. 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 automatic e leaders are also holding talks with the united nations secretary general. he more infected developing academies are facing a perfect storm of rising hunger,

food insecurity and to fall out of the climate crisis and europe. he says he be taking the lead on finding solutions that he w jack parish is in brussels and he joined be earlier. 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. i collectively at least the 17 countries that have signed up to it to go and start buying ammunition together. and also a plan that to increase production in the european union. 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 his zalinski today delivered a video message to the salvage,

and it's clear that 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 also long range missiles on modern fights and fighter jets to be delivered by the e partners. i willing they'll be able to do that. 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 minister meeting earlier this week, and he said he needs 3 things, ammunition, ammunition, ammunition. while they've got the hardware on the ground in ukraine, they don't have an intense fire in it. they went when the wall. yeah. and 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 by she should be the, the chinese president with vladimir putin. both of these leaders is saying that there 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 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 suck place 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 close the chinese all with the russians. and as another angle to this. and this actually was 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. 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 written it? so it's extremely complicated. geopolitically an elite is a considering and locked in to those kind of discussions as we press to the visa there with the latest knife brushes, jack thinking, there's a look now, some of the other stores that are making headlines around the world. so vakio says that it have sent for fighter jets to ukraine with another 9 due in the coming weeks. this for fills a pledge that it made last week to donate the mig 29 aircraft and it makes so vakio

the 2nd nato country after poland to pledge work planes for the ukrainian 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 hid need for their sick daughter, e k. x. where he might do the former deputy president of nigeria senate was accused of exploiting a st trader from logos by paying him just a few $1000.00. the you in his warning that clean water is in short supply around the world because of overconsumption unsustainable use and global warming. and especially you, in conference in new york, secretary general antonio gutierrez, called from major commitments to ensure that everyone has access to drink water and sanitation. before the end of this decade, france has 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 with police using tier guess train in air travel was also 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. this movement represents right? like it's a philosophy of life. do we want to work? and so where 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 right 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 all after this 1st nationwide, day of strikes are correspondent lisa louis in paris 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 he said, the reform was pushed through and you're right, there were really angry. there were angry by the government method, the fact that the government, a man my call the president use this extraordinary and constitutional power to push the reform through parliament without of aid and further and get by in my, my cause 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 sane for his own people. well, the pension reform, it's already a done deal and, and obviously it wasn't enough to get enough boats to bring down the government. so these protests, i mean i, i understand that there may be anchor there. but what can these protests still

achieve that still options, you know, 1st of all, legally speaking, they reform is now with the constitutional counsel. the constitutional council might say that reform or part of it, not constitutional and rejected. and also people who are hoping for referendums as part of mentoring, have launched an initiative for such a referendum, but that will take lots of lots of the month actually to come into effect. so protesters 1st before are determined to continue to demonstrate and just increase the pressure pressure, hoping that the government will back down the w lisa louis legacy night from paris . lisa thank is really prime minister bisman at yahoo has doubled down on his push for judicial reform, which has sparked nationwide protests despite speculation that he might abandon the reforms after unease with his governing coalition in

a televised address to day that yahoo said only that he will do everything to calm the situation and to bring cohesion. critics say that the overhauled legal system is a threat to israel democracy our corresponded tanya kramer is in jerusalem. she followed at yahoo statement, forrest and she told me what prompted him to make to day speech. but he seemed to day again another day of protest. also a lot of arrests during the day or during those protests and that the prussia, 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 by had cross 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. and finally, the world's 1st 3 d printed rocket has been launched successfully from cape canaveral in the u. s, but it failed to reach orbit. it was the 3rd attempt by the private aerospace startup relativity space. the company said that the rocket experienced and anomaly, which usually means that work during that 2nd stage separation 3 d printing of seen as a cheaper way of building spacecraft and setting new standards for space travel. they just have to get you to space. first page ignition you're

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