to pluck come, make sure to tune and wherever you get your past and join the conversation, because you know it love man. mm ah ah, this is the w news live from ban ukraine's later thanks, poland for support in the war to polish president. welcome to pull out of me as of ask you to warsaw and stepped up military support with a pledge to supply. meg fighter jets. also on the program. donald trump denies criminal charges in court in new york. and i never thought anything like this could happen in america. deborah thought it could happen. the only crime that i have

committed is to fearlessly defend our nation from those who seek to destroy the former us president lashes out after pleading not guilty to $34.00 counts of business from violence and is randers police entered jerusalem's. alex, a mosque during the whole, the month of ramadan. ah, i'm fil gail. welcome to the program. ukraine's president vladimir lansky has thanked poland for its support in the war with russia. ukrainian presidents has received an official welcome from the polish present and re duda on a visit to warsaw. poland has been a close and vocal ally of you. cray also has provided extensive military support and president good as just announcer to his country is to supply you cried with 14

mic fighter jets. zalinski is going on to meet some of the 1600000 ukrainians who sought refuge in poland. since the inversion were correspond, christina montoya is there a little earlier and she told us about the message that mr. zelinski is to deliver to the polish people what we know that he is come to personally deliver a thank you to the polish people for the solidarity that they have shown with ukraine. it's believe that there are still about a 1000000 ukraine. refugees that are in poland and this is really just testament to the hospitality they've been given. yeah, of course millions passed through this country, but many more prefer to stay ah, here as they have been welcomed, polish people open their doors and there's no indication that that has changed a lot of but ukrainian refugees have basically settled here. so we know that president zalinski will be personally delivering

a thank you to the polish people for that continued solidarity that they've showed with ukraine. christine manuel will military analysts are expecting ukraine to launch a spring counter offensive in the war against a russian occupation forces. newly delivered tanks and longer range rockets supplied by western allies, may provide an edge. the government in cave says it appreciate that assistance and stresses that its goal is its goal is to retain control of all of its territory. the front line near back moved into training and soldiers are dug in. it's still unclear who's in control of the city. the u. s. and other backers have advised ukraine to pull out and saying the cost is too high. both ukraine and russia have lost huge numbers of soldiers in the battle, but ukraine insists on defending the area as it prepares for a major spring counter offensive gluten, other than it will happen and we are waiting. we do not know when it will happen.

that's a good question, but we will be a part of it is i thought about it synchronous was them. we're all waiting for equipment from the west. ours is pretty old and worn out. thought it breaks down quickly. so we're waiting for some new equipment from our partners abroad. that equipment is arriving slowly, but surely. western tanks, including british challengers and german, made leopards have arrived in the country. they are also rumors that u. s. and swedish build g l s. d, be guided bombs. are already in use. these munitions fired from the back of a high mars truck, have a range of a 150 kilometers. nearly double the range of the high mars rockets ukraine now uses . that would put many more russian targets, including ammunition depots in ukrainian sites. ukraine's foreign minister says

foreign weaponry is critical. seriously, a lot is on the plate as usually we very much appreciate everything that the united states have done. specifically in the last month to help automate itself for the, for the, for the come by the ministration has fulfill this commitment to providing you with a lot of what, what we need. and to set an example to give an example to other other allies. ukraine says its goal is to liberate all of its territory, including the crimean peninsula in russia, hands for nearly a decade. analysts say ukraine will likely mount a major attack through the partially occupied chaper rees or region. aiming at the russian held city of molly to paul, a successful push would cut through russia supply lines to its forces, further west. whatever form the counter offensive ends up taking much as at stake

for ukraine. the countries western backers want to see russia defeated on the battlefield. not another bad mote. let's go through this with our band hodges. there's a former commanding general of us forces in europe are welcome to d. w general. as the world waits for this expected ukrainian counter offensive, that's you could talk us through what military planners need to consider to make such a counter offensive successful. well, thank you. my sense is that ukrainian general staff has done a terrific job protecting information and conserving the forces that they're going to need when they do inevitably launch this counter offensive. um, i think the finding around buck moot, that was very costly, but it also was necessary that the general staff could see that they were able to

stop russian forces there and back moot and to believe them out and caused them to use a lot of resources without ukraine having to push its own armored forces into back mood, that's what they're going to need when they do launch their own counter offensive, which i would anticipate would be on a very narrow front to achieve it. a decisive effect, much like your previous journalist just reported to, to break the land bridge between crimea and the rest of russia. crimea, is the decisive terrain. you could kill every russian soldier within 200 kilometers or back mode. and that would not change the strategic setting, but if you liberate crimea, that changes everything. so the counter offensive will be aimed towards the liberation of crimea. and then the rest of the don bass, i think that comes later. and so what will ukraine need to be wary of when this

counter offensive happens? well, of course, no. i've been impressed with their discipline their understanding of what's required to conduct a operation of the scale. so they'll have nella been working hard to prepare the logistics to get the forces ready. um, so there's a lot of training this been going on in ukraine as well as back in germany and in, in, in poland and other places. they're practicing. how did to do this, what we called combined arms tanks, artillery infant mechanized infantry engineers, and i would anticipate close air support as well. now the russians are not stupid, they, they know that this is coming somewhere. so they will attempt to preempted and somehow they, they obviously have been putting a lot of effort into their own trenches and obstacles and that sort of thing. but i think the ukrainians will pick the right time in place when the weather, the traffic ability, the road, all the conditions are set so that they can bring up more long range precision

weapons that will enable them to make the crimean peninsula untenable. going after headquarters going after ammunition storage sites. this is how you defeat mass is with precision against those specific targets. that's how you neutralize the advantage. the only advantage that the russians have. and so what then is the price of failure? how important is it that you crave? launches this counter offensive, successfully? as a excellent question, i think there is a lot of, oh speculation, perhaps that the west is getting weary or getting tired. i'm not so sure of that. i think most nations, including the united states in germany and u. k. and france, recognize how important this is. and we need to see, we want to see ukraine be successful. we want ukraine to win. so i would not say this is, this is all or nothing, but what i would expect in i'm,

what i'm sure is happening is that ukraine, the general staff, has done a very good job of preparation. they're continuing to do this. and i think this attack will have that will have the possibility, or maybe the potential to have a devastating effect on russian forces. i think the russians are really at the breaking point now themselves their logistic system. we see constant reports of arguing, and i mean that flat out hatred and rivalry between all the leaders on the russian side. and if this, if this, the tag begins to pick up momentum and penetrates dozens of kilometers through russian defenses. i think it's going to have a psychological effect on other russian forces as well as in the kremlin. and so i think the potential for a significant outcome is very real that the sanctions are having an effect. russian people do not want. they do not support this fight. they,

they can't say that publicly, obviously, but there's nobody rushing to join the russian army to join the fight. they absolutely don't want to be a part of it. and so these, these new longer range missiles, these g, l, s, d, b, and missiles. what sort of difference are you making? so you remember the sees me, you remember when the high mars 1st arrived on the scene back last summer and immediately began to have effect a hitting russian ammunition storage russian headquarters. and so the russians then moved outside the range of the 90 kilometers that those rockets were able to reach . so by now, if in fact ukraine has received the ground launch small diameter bombs with that 150 kilometer reach. that means more of the russian headquarters, artillery storage and transportation networks. those are now going to be in range. and so, you know, with that sort of precision, you really undermine the brush,

the russian advantage in mass infantry and mass artillery by taking out the headquarters, taking out the ammunition and making it difficult for them to move in. this is the kind of operation that they'll be doing, i think for the next couple of months, what we would call shaping the battlefield. i sort of plan. thank you so much for spending the time i was. hi, general, a ban. hodges, former commander of us forces in your thank you. thank you. mean, while nato secretary general against dalton polk, has reiterated the alliance, his long term support for your crime. he said, be alliance would be developing a program to bring ukraine's military up to nato standards as growing concerned with it, nato, that beijing may be trying, may be considering a supplying russia without arms. if pressed into thin wins in ukraine, it will send the dangers message to old italian leaders around the world that they can achieve the goals through brute force. so support through creating remains

critical on it is in our shared security interests. let's go to our correspondent tele short suzetta nato headquarters where you, my secretary of state antony lincoln, is giving a press conference. so welcome attorney wants to secretary blinkin, been say, secretary lincoln has been asked about u. s. support for ukraine, about the trust that nato allies have that the u. s. is here for the long haul. and of course, one of the reasons that question is coming up is because there is also this additional concern about china and about china's intentions toward taiwan. in particular, the usa does not want to see any altercation breakout between china and tay, want taiwan as because because it also has, of course, a very strong military interest in the indo pacific. so this is something that is, has been on the agenda of the nato foreign ministers today. i dm's stoughton broke has also insisted that ukraine's future is in the euro,

atlantic family. but without a clear timeline, it's already real progress that that's something that secretary blinkin was just asked about as well. because nato has promised ukraine has pledged to ukraine, that it will eventually become a member of the alliance. so ukraine is asking, well, when you know that they, the ukrainian say that there is no better way to help them win the war than to add the support of the nato allies behind it. but that's something that certainly not on the agenda in the near term, most nieto allies would not be willing to accept a new member with the, with a alive war on its territory. so that's a, they're telling ukraine we will do everything we can to help you win the war. but yeah, that's not going to include membership. at this point. there was a warning as well that made her describing any help to russia from china as a mistake. what do we think about means?

that's because it's been on the radar now for several months that china may be considering is the word of supplying russia with, with lethal aid, with weapons to help in its war against ukraine. now the united states and the other allies have been warning begging that this would be what they call a serious mistake and implying very strongly that there would be very serious consequences for beijing shouldn't make that change. and we've also heard, including today, that this has not yet happened. so at the moment, this is just a warning, but something that, that allies are certainly underscoring to the strongest possible degree of defense osby, a bigger issue other, and he signs the term nato members are increasing that if i'm spending yes, all of these things that we're talking about increasing defense along nato's eastern flank. continuing to supply ukraine. all of these things are very expensive. and at the moment to nato's target of, of allies spending 2 percent of their g d. p on their own. military's that's not

even being met by the majority of allies. and yet at the same time, nato is having to talk about what more country should spend on their militaries to help keep up this level of defense and deterrence, primarily against russia. so at the next summit in vilnius this july, they are expected to come up with a new financial pledge, whereas the old one was we should aim to move toward spending 2 percent of our g, d, p on defense. secretary general stillberg said today there needs to be much stronger language to compel allies to do more. so that's what they're going to be working, working on between now and july. how can you basically convince allies that they need to invest more heavily in their own military's to, for their own defense and also to help you crane win this war against russia. thank you so much for. that's a terry schultz at nato headquarters is look at the most doors making news around the world. friends present in manuel mackerel has said that europe must

resist reducing trade and diplomatic ties with china is at the south a 3 day a visit there. and the war in ukraine is very much at the top of the agenda. you'll meet prostitution paint as expected to try and that discourage him from supporting russia. i was present at sighing when has arrived in the united states where she's do some meets with republican house speaker carrying mccarthy. the meeting outside los angeles comes on. what's technically a stop over for president scheduled meeting has drawn threats of retaliation from china, which claims self rule taiwan as its own. italian media say, former prime minister silvio berlusconi is in intensive care in milan with heart problems. 86 year old media tycoon has suffered bouts of ill health over recent years. it leaves the right wing forts italia party, which is part of the coldest gun former us president donald trump has pleaded not guilty to criminal charges in court in new york. he faces 34 counts of falsifying

business records, linked to hush money payments. and prosecutors say he orchestrated. mr. trump says the charges are baseless and part of a political campaign against him. just hours after facing an unprecedented criminal hearing, donald trump was back on the attack. this is a urgency and investigation. she stood our family for. it was hundreds of millions of dollars. but our header, hillary trump, is facing 34 criminal charges in a new york courts. among other things, state prosecutors alleged the former president falsified business records in order to conceal damaging information before his election. inside. he entered not guilty, pleased to all the charges which relate to hush money payments to adore men, and to women. he's alleged to have had affairs with why

the donald trump repeatedly makes these false statements. the evidence will show that he did so to cover up crimes relating to the 2016 election ah, back at his morrow. log. a home in florida. trump told supporters in a campaign style speech that the charges against him were politically motivated and baseless. i never thought anything like this could happen in america. never thought it could happen. the only crime that i have committed is to fearlessly defend our nation from those who seek to destroy it. the case will be back before a judge in december, but it's not the only legal drama trump is facing. there are several other investigations underway which could result in further and more serious charges,

which could force trump to make more court appearances between now and election day and was really prime minister benjamin netanyahu says he's working to calm the situation following violent clashes at the our acts and mosque in jerusalem. tension between israelis and palestinians has escalated over police clashes with people inside the mosque. authorities say they were forced to enter the building, one of is lambs, holy sites, to remove people they describe as writers. the incident sparked anger across the middle east allies of the palestinians, accused israel of using excessive force against worshippers. an eruption of violence in the heart of one of jerusalem's. holiest sites. israeli police say the clash is broke out when they were forced to enter the al acts a mosque where masked youths had barricaded themselves in sight, armed with fireworks sticks and stones. this footage provided by the israeli police

appears to show people setting off firecrackers. the palestinian red crescent says at least 12 worshippers were injured in what one eye witness described as a brutal assault by israeli forces. them in the yard. the eastern part of the mosque, the police were firing tier gus and stun grenades. it was a scene that i can't describe than the police stormed in and started beating every one. and they detained people and they put the young men on their faces to the ground. they also beat them. loaded hon. one of the violin soon reverberated beyond jerusalem when palestinian militants fired rockets from the gaza strip towards israeli territory. hours later israel shot back launching airstrikes in gaza. for

now neither side appears. willing to stand. dang israelis far right. national security minister is mar, bank vere. praised the police, his actions for saying they did a good job. meanwhile palestinian militant grip hamas called on palestinians to go on mass to the al acts and mosque to defend it, leaving millions to fear. there will be no peace this holy season. and you'll recall that of the earthquake in february kill tens of thousands of people in turkey and northwest syria, and left millions homes, least 5000000 people in syria need shelter. according to the you and refugee agency, the situation in the humanitarian shelters can be harsh. it's under these conditions with thousands of farmers and are observing the month of ramadan. the earthquake destroyed all mom, dot's house. she now lives in this tent. as the sun set call to prayer approaches.

the woman in her fifties prepares the meal to break the fast. if tar in her shelter in the village of angina, near aleppo, whom abdul is like thousands whose homes have been destroyed. and who can hardly afford if taught or leshar with him hub bombing, i feel psychologically shattered. it doesn't feel like ramadan to me and my neighbors here and there, so we don't feel anything. here at the shelter. we have lost everything. we have nothing left about yet. it's hard for us to get into the spirit of the month of ramadan has sphere and everything is missing here hold on. good a shame of odon. even before the quake struck, syria was facing crisis upon crisis. 12 years of war had already left that country in a dire humanitarian situation. now, what was left of the ramadan atmosphere has vanished. more than half the population

doesn't have enough to eat. the displaced people in this camp, which includes about $250.00 families, st. they're struggling to survive. the la la la ramadan, we were all living at home. thank god. now things are different. as you can see, i am a one day the tents collapsed. not that they flooded my life. it's very hot in the camps. we lost our businesses and everything in the earthquake were all injured. that the whole family usually comes together for ramadan, but now we're all scattered. yeah, no one is in the closet either. while so little along the la darlena, this is the hardest ramadan for us. because we've lost our families and friends, also been displaced from our home search for you and have moved to 10 of them. that unsuitable and lack of elias necessities. 15 syrian volunteers gather in the ramadan kitchen. they're preparing $200.00 meals for those affected and displaced by the earthquake. the whole operation is funded by donations.

i'm annoyed in all the difficulties we face, include too few donated meal as we rely on individual donations, one new one. and we're here to help our brothers and sisters who are affected by the earthquake, and you have lost their families and homes and who are unable to get up dharm neil: so yeah, we're here to help alleviate their suffering with matt. let that rattle saw a loveseat and then residents here hope their living conditions will soon improve with no homes to go back to. don't probably have to live here for a long time. but line of football at by munich have crashed out with a german cap after losing to want to fry buck with the score tide at one all late in the game by and jamal marcial, that was all for a humble 5 votes. lucas heard it stepped up, i converted from the penalty spot. fryeburg hoping to win the cup for the 1st time

is remind about top stories at this hour. ukraine's leader vladimir zalinski has done poland for support and the war during a visit to warsaw polish president. andre, due to pledge to supply you with the big fact. yes. donald trump has told supporters he's facing prosecution, not to prosecution. after learning the details of criminal charges he faces for u. s. president pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records in court in new york. accusations relate to the payment of how much money to 3 people before the 2016 and the dental election is d. w. coming up next in news, asia will tie one once from a historic and meeting in the us, despite threats from china, and how indonesia is hoping,

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