ah ah ah, this is the w news live from berlin, ukraine's allies me to boost support in the war with russia. top us defense officials rally western partners and promised american tanks will make a difference on the battlefield. both frances and donald trump are among celebrities losing their twitter blue takes either master says he'll remove the

verification from any account fails to pay a monthly fee also coming up later, the program, scientists say that last 8 years have been the hottest on record, are rising temperatures are changing our lives, especially in asia. ah, i'm good. how else has well come to the program? ukraine's western allies have been meeting at ramstein abbeys here in germany to coordinate support for keith. it's battle against the russian invasion. you are a secretary of defense, load austin, and talk to you as a general mark, milly say, ukraine's partner stand united on providing weapons and other equipment to keep for the long haul. austin gave this summary of recent arms deliveries to you, correct?

our collective efforts have made a huge difference on the battlefield. and now in just a few short months, the contact group has delivered more than 230 tanks. more than 1550 armored vehicles and other equipment and munitions to support more than 9 new armored brigades. we've also expedited our in one abrams timelines to supply ukraine with more armored capability in the coming months. and the m one set the ukrainians will use for training, arrive here in germany in the next few weeks. and all of this is huge progress. germany also pitched in defense minister birth to stories announced a new deal with poland to set up a repair hobb tanks damaged on the battlefield did as much lee oversee indian

creek leave final pants. any materials were delivered to this war, such as tanks and other equipment, like how it says or even patriot systems can be damaged in combat. and also through long term use. what does it go to with my polish coolie? that's why i'm very glad that today, along with my polish colleague and my ukranian colleague understand, i was able to sign a memorandum of understanding and setting up a joint repair hub in poland for the entire layer to fleet to leo to buy flow to other the to buy our fee so that these tanks can be quickly repaired when needed, close to the polish ukrainian border. germany, defense minister forest stores speaking there with them in the studio. now simon young are political correspondent, simon, you follow this story during the day? how much support is ukraine really going to get now? well, there is, there is support at this meeting today of these countries that are supporting ukraine. that was a, you know, sort of working,

meeting to sort of get into the nuts and bolts of that. so one thing that could really make a difference that we've heard about these are refurbished. m one abrams tanks, coming from the us 31 arriving by the end of may said lloyd austin and along with the training of ukrainian tank crews, that's due to take about 10 weeks. so the us defense secretary said that he believed that back equipment and the training would really make a difference. putting ukraine in the position to continue and prosecute. it's more successful in the european countries doing something similar with smaller promises of, of tanks and heavy equipment will serve munitions, of training, of logistical support, the whole sort of pipeline of support that's needed. and so there is an impression, i think of concrete support that's still going through. but of course at the same time it's not exactly as much as and of the quality that you haven't president

zaleski, have been asking for. they would like even more modern battle tanks and even more up to date aircraft across there was also was often that press conference about fighter jets and he said it wasn't a priority. that's right. he just missed those questions. he said that if anything, the, the, the focus as far as the air war is concerned is on the ground based air defense systems that he also thinks needed that are also among the stuff that's being promised by, by germany and other countries. and the german defense minister the same, you know, rejecting bad idea that you know, the debate could go towards providing the up to date equipment. of course, what we have seen and make 29 to soviet aeroplanes that to have been provided by poland and some other eastern european countries. and that's got backing and the german defense,

but it's the same. that's the kind of equipment they can use. they can use it now because the trained on those systems, it would take a long time to get them up to speed on planes. like you're a fighter, the tornado. he said it's not like a rental car. you can't just switch from one to another. it takes years of training really. so that's, that's one reason they, they give. now we just heard german defense minister stories, speaking about degree with poland to set up a repair hub in poland. i mean, in this context of fighter jets and huge tanks and all that stuff with mundane doesn't, it will, it does. but this is part of what they call the logistics war. if a tank is spent some time in the battle zone, you know, it does need repair, undoubtedly. and so having that logistical base that repair hub in poland, not far from the ukrainian borders. what they've announced it is set to be up and running. by the end of months, it will cost up to $200000000.00 euros. and so it's

a significant commitment. germany is putting some of its money into that and you know, i think it does make a difference. we're all looking forward to thinking about the plan ukranian counter offensive to come in the coming months. and of course, having that type of technical logistical back up is an important part of that. so now political correspondent, thank you to all the news now and more changes on the way it twits up which has begun. removing many of the blue ticks used to very far the platforms, accounts, celebrities, including of the pope and donald trump, have been affected to the owner. mosque says that takes will be removed from accounts that fail to pay a month to feed. he also says he personally is paying for some subscriptions, including those of the right of stephen king and basketball, star bron j for more details on that, we are joined by matthew phoenix,

head of tech and innovation at the london based thing tax center for policy studies through twitter has begun to remove blue takes. why do they do this? well, i think this is a consequence of even masks commitment to changing things. twitter in a whole myriad of ways. unfortunately, i think for him this is backfired somewhat in large part because he and others. i think i misunderstood what value people get out of that. that blue text me for some it may be a social status symbol. but for many celebrities, politicians and journalists, it is important for them to be verified. and i think a lot of them feel as if it should be twitter engaging in the verification and that the burden should not be on them. now mosque has been trying to increase the platforms revenue. do you think this will actually help? no, i think it is likely that celebrities will abandon the. busy platform will complain until the others pay for them. we've already seen that journalism. alice has

signaled that they are going to get off twitter. so i don't think this is the answer to twitter financial questions. it's important that we have people in the social media space. we're willing to explore different ways to fund social media, but it's unclear to me that this is going to work. now we've already seen many fake accounts popping up. can we expect more to come? yes, i think we already have this been at least 11 issue with a new york state affiliated twitter accounts, dealing with impulses. and this is exactly the kind of problem that lou take verification emerged to solve. which is that the more prominent on accounts, the more likely impersonators or hoaxes are going to get involved to disrupt the platform and make it more difficult for people to consume genuine news and information. and so i expect that as firms or individuals choose not to pay

that we will see more impersonation. and i think that's going to degrade the platform. what can people do if they're being impersonated by other people? i just, fortunately never happened to me, but as best i understand they can contact with notify them of this. but given the scale of the content that we have or that twitter is dealing with, i imagine that that's a rather andras process to verify that it's a genuine complaints and to investigate the case and then to take down the impulse to and of course it is trivial to set up a twitter account. so if you're malicious act and you know that the blue chick verification is no longer stable, it is a prime opportunity, not just for hoaxes, but also criminals and or an episodes. matthew, feeding them off the think tank center for policy studies, joining us from none. and thanks for sharing your expertise with us. thanks. have a now let's have a look at some of the other stories,

making headlights hum in sudan, the army and the rapid support forces paramilitary group have agreed to a 3 day truce to allow people to celebrate the muslim festival of eat. witnesses say heavy fighting continues in the capital cartoon. despite the agreement more than 400 people have been killed since violence broke out nearly a week ago. 10 members of the same family have been killed in a mass shooting at a house in south africa. please say they were ambushed by unknown gunman and eastern city of peter merrit spoke. south africa has one of the world's highest moderate work as it stood cut airport of joint stripes at 3 of germany's other major airports. industrial action has left tens of thousands of travel stranded long distance rail staff have joined the walk out. the transport unions are demanding higher pay to offset inflation. after 4 years of

trying mexico has finally sold its unused presidential jet. pakistan has bought it for $92000000.00. president andrew manuel lopez over door who's refused to fly in it. since taking office in 2018 says the cache will pay those $2.00 new hospitals. i was added to new york, so no 6 chose president gabrielle borage. says his government will nationalize the lithium industry. it is the latest challenge to electric carmakers scrambling to secure supplies of the metal. to my batteries. chilly has the world's biggest lithium reserves and follows mexico in nationalizing the sector. the world mit or logical organization says the last 8 last 8 years have been the hottest on record. asia has been hit especially hard by rising temperatures. climate change is also linked to other extreme weather events such as the flooding that devastated pakistan. earlier this year,

critics ape governments are not doing enough to tackle global warming a scorching sun and sweltering temperatures. in bangkok, people have been struggling to stay cool longer. it's unusually hot this here. it's hotter than any other year and it makes my job harder. i feel like i can pass out at any minute as my uniform is thick and the weather is hot and i have to sweep quite a stretch of road all across asia, countries have been hit with reco tie heats, bangladesh saw its highest temperature in more than half a century, while 13 people died from heat stroke at an event in india. of the globe heaths evermore extreme heat waves the becoming the norm. the last 8 years have been the warmest ever recorded. according to a new report released by the world, meet your logical organization. there's just no doubt but climate.

i, extremes are, are really a interface out as a so, so many happening that people can keep up in a sense. and you keep hearing about record breaking a bounce over and over and over again. and that's not just heat waves. scientists linked drought in east africa and severe flooding in pakistan in 2022 to climate change causing untold misery to tens of millions of people. and costing billions of dollars of loss or damage. hazardous climates and weather related events also drove migration and wes and conditions. the people already displaced by conflict and natural disasters. according to the report he trapping greenhouse gas emissions continued to rise in 2022. despite all the target, the night at the global level, the actions on climate change are still extremely weak. so i think that's just at the local level. we have to prepare for our for much more warming this year is

unlikely to see a left up in climate and weather related disasters. only concrete action will help regions like asia in the future overcome heat like that of the past few days. before we go, a quick correction, it wasn't pasano, both the mexican potentials at thought, tajikistan apologies for that, and that's it from me and the do seem for now coming up next. there dw documentary asking how plastic waste ends up in this mode arctic. brinko will have an update for you at the top of the i'll gather office from me and the television news scene . thanks for the trio taking on nigerian trafficking works with this did over those mounting evidence that nigerian human trafficking enforced constitution are also taking place here in school. the school.