ah, ah ah ah ah, this is dw news ly, but from berlin tonight, a meeting of more than 50 countries and their latest plans to help ukraine against russia. the u. s. is hosting at its german ramstein base and american tanks, we understand for ukraine will arrive soon. ukrainian troops will be trained inside germany. also coming up tonight, as ramadan ends,

a fragile truce begins in sudan. but witnesses there say that there's no letting up in the fighting more than 400 people have now been killed as the army battles, paramilitary groups. and it's for it's. chelsea is in crisis with fans comparing the owner to that hapless t v. character known as ted last of now it seems julian now guzman is not joining the club and ballet ballet instead of bullets. we'll meet the ukrainian artist using performance to fight back against the russian invasion. ah. i'm burned. gov is good to have you with this. we begin this friday with the latest plans to help ukraine and it's war against russia. ukraine's western allies are meeting at a u. s. air base. here in germany, u. s. secretary of defense,

lloyd austin and the pentagon stopped general mark milly saying today that ukraine's partners stand united on providing weapons and other equipment for the long haul us defense. secretary austin gave this summary of recent arms deliveries to ukraine. our collective efforts 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 em onset the ukrainians will use for training arrive here in germany in the next few

weeks. early one takes will arrive at the military training ground here in germany at the end of may ukrainian troops will then begin training. that training is expected to last about 10 weeks. those training tanks we understand will not go to ukraine. instead, 31 other abrams tanks are being refurbished. they will be sent to the front lines in ukraine by this fall. germany's defense minister voice. the story is announcing today a new deal with poland to set up a repair hub for tanks that are damaged on the battlefield. yet is motley of us, he, indian cheek leaf on the fence. any materials we deliver to this war, such as tanks and other equipment, like how it says or even patriot systems fly, can be damaged in combat and also through long term use. therefore, does it go to with my apologies and 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. yeah. and setting up my joint repair hub in poland

for the entire layer to fleet, dump, de leon, ly floor to other the it's like a nice tanks can be quickly repaired when needed, close to the polish you cranium, that florida ne, by baffled, ever dove at stuff all right, i'm joined now by raphael. los he is with the european council on foreign relations . he joins b from right here in berlin, raphael, it's good to see you again. so we've got news about us tanks going to ukraine, a repair hub in poland for damage tanks. these new pledges. how important are they for the ukranian effort against the russians? i think the main message office 11th meeting after ukraine defense contract was that off the i say to ukraine, we're with you for as long as we at takes and we really mean it as we've seen it of new commitments that allies and partners of ukraine have made in the past couple weeks, but now we focus on sustainment increasing the supply of ammunition use repair

parts all ahead of ukraine's expected offensive. and a panel effort to expand ukraine's air defense capabilities. the ukraine is pushing its allies, particularly the united states to supply fighter jets as well as air defense systems. what makes both of these so crucial and do they have to come in tandem? us secretary of defense law, austin remarked on the sidelines of the ramstein form. it retained that the primary focus is to strengthen the ukraine's ground based air defense. and i think he's right and that, and i need to supply more ammunition and more systems to ukraine to help make up for the loss of 2 systems that ukraine has been using to date. and where munition is running, you know. but the question about western produced jets is one that i should tackle early on supply timeline for these very complex systems. be

many months, maybe even yes, the training of ukraine and pilots want to setting up of supply chains. supply lines for ammunition and spare parts will be a backup. it's a very complex undertaking, but i think the decision is taken early. then we can see them have an effect further down the road. here what do you make of the german defense minister today announcing that there has been in an agreement with poland to set up a repair hub there for tanks. i think it's a really big step forward for ukraine, but also for german polish nations, which have not been good in recent years. and it makes me happy as an analyst and as a european to see that those 2 government can now collaborate more effectively when it comes to supporting new quinn in defense of struggle. and hopefully this effort will expand further to include other systems that now focus on the leper to tank capital. poland and germany have taken

a leadership role and applying to ukraine. but i think there's certainly a potential to expand that effort, even if you look at the calendar, it's almost late. april a has ukraine, assembled enough military equipment to launch that counter offensive against russian forces. most people, we were expecting it to happen. now this spring i think they do have all the pieces in place and now it's about synchronizing that they've received a lot of military capability of from that partners in the west that includes tanks, that of infantry fighting vehicles. but it also includes pioneer engineering equipment, combat engineers are important to clear minds to clear obstacles, everything, and that ukrainians will need to break through the russian defensive lines which have only gotten stronger over the past couple of months. because of course, everybody's expecting ukrainian offensive to liberate additional territory. this will not be a walk in the park for the ukrainians. but i think with everything that western allies together with your credit have done these past couple of months, there is

a good chance to make some progress on that front end roughly before we run out of time, let me ask you to still allows hawk belt ukraine one day joining nato. how useful is that? that rhetoric at this point? i think it's certainly an important question, how to guarantee ukraine's sol route he m if and when that war events ends. hopefully, sooner rather than later, you installed a brick nato secretary general, just visit a kia yesterday. invite. whatever is identical to join nato eat us when they meet and then yes, later this year in july. for the annual summit, i think a strong message from major ice towards ukraine that day take ukraine's efficient seriously. and that a present ukraine with a prospect of off eventually becoming a need to. and i, even if it is, i'm taking some some, some more time for your loss with the european council on foreign relations.

raphael, as always, we appreciate your time in your analysis. thank you. thanks for having me. there. we want to take the story now to our very own roman. going to ringo he is in keep forest tonight. so all these announcements that have been coming out of germany today. roman is this what ukraine wanted to hear? well yes and not quite so because for ukraine, when we, when we remember what was said before, that meeting in ramstein fo, cringe was extremely important to hear that we will come more ammunition for its anti aircraft systems. long range emissions for its aircraft systems f u k was also hoping for a signal to finally become green light for, for you in fighter jets like f, 16 years made a fighter jets or that didn't happen and we still don't know how much ammunition for the chron at defenses, the west will deliver. but on the other hand,

the biggest good news for ukraine is probably the announcement by the united states to soon deliver 1st abrams and one tanks for ukrainian soldiers to train in germany . so this will begin very soon. and then those tanks will then come in summer, but for the offensive, a big offensive operation that you can is planning. now, that would probably come to late. yeah, i was gonna ask you, what about these promises these announcements being made today? and what do they mean for the counter offensive on the battlefield? well, as i've just said, ukraine needs, those are anti aircraft systems. a crazy has some. the west has delivered some, including patrick system with systems which are very good. but ukraine is much more . we've seen in the past days in the east of ukraine, where the heavy fighting is continued by. i see it by more than other towns in the region in don bass that russia is using more and more it's aircraft again,

is bombers again. and ukraine is not able to shoot them down because they are operating from a distance. so you create, you can needs more support from the west on that front. but in general, you crane have, if you look back a few months back on the west, western countries have delivered a lot of new weapons, heavy weapons to play like main battle tanks like german leper to tanks. and the news from ramstein that there will be a repair base in poland is very, very important because it is often underestimated how important it is to have an opportunity to repair and maintain such a such heavy weapons. i want to get your take on a tweet that came from the ukranian defense minister of he tweeted that ukraine has now basically reached unprecedented levels of inter operability with nato. we are de facto already, a part of the alliance is security space. what does he mean by that? well, we hear such messages here and keith again and again. and the fact is that nato

and ukraine are very, very close partners. and that cooperation is only increasing. and ukraine would like to finally formalize its relations with nato, because it sees in nato, the only guarantee that a war, like we've seen, will not happen again. so ukraine is hoping ahead of the nato summit in lithuania in summer to gave a to have to hear more from natal than just the saying that you create and will become a nato member some day. but no specific date was mentioned so far. it means roman, going to rank reporting tonight from keith roman. thank you. we're now going to africa in sudan. the army and a rival paramilitary group have agreed to a 3 day truce to allow people to celebrate the muslim festival of eat. but witnesses say that having fighting, it continues to the capital cartoon. despite this agreement with the 400 people have been killed in thousands more injured since violence broke out in the country

nearly a week ago. joining me now is africa analyst. i'll be able to walk, dig, who is in, is stand, bowl forest. it's good to have you on the program. what can we expect in your opinion, from this cease fire between students, army and the rapid support forces? i good evening. i think it clear this far is, is not holding. i spoke today with people in, in the capital cut down earlier this afternoon in which the heavy gunfire was audible. and i also have just spoken to actually a relative of mine who is in hard to me, who said, no, the street fighting is going on right now. it's quite heavy. and fact, the armed forces have come out and inform the population that in their opinion, the air operations have been successful and they're now moving to the ground

fighting. and according to the s s, they said that they have that they want to move to street fighting in order to flush out the recess that they've accused of hiding in, in residential buildings. so if anything, things things are getting worse. and i think to, yeah, i'm just going to say in cartoon to capital, i mean, it sounds what you're saying tells me that the, this is the situation for civilians, the humanitarian situation there is going from bad to worse. absolutely. and you know, it's now been nearly one week because people are having difficulty getting food, people having, having difficulty getting water, spoken to people who maybe twice in the last week. there is also the issue of cooking fuel more for there's also the issue of shelter because obviously,

not only have people been forced to move from their homes due to the fighting. in some cases they've actually been told to leave their homes. there's of the, the hospitals are lacking basic supplies and also themselves under attack. any, the indiscriminate fighting. and on top of that, that is also a country that's home to 1000000 refugees who are themselves already vulnerable. so the situation is quite tough. humanitarian workers are unable to work. they themselves are trapped at their homes. yeah. what about these foreign citizens? we understand you were still tripped in or to do we know if these evacuation efforts are they're making any progress it's, it's unsure there's been contradictory information. on the other hand we, we do know that the u. s. has moved to add additional trips to captain when you get in to booty. also the u. k. has announced that they will,

that they have their forces on standby to remove their embassy staff and citizens. also many african countries, such as kenya have officially announced that they are planning to evacuate citizens . so, so yes, there is perhaps likely to be some attempt at evacuation. although right now it's nearly impossible in the city of them. i'll be out there all day ever and was joining us tonight from is tim bold. we appreciate your time and your analysis. thank you. thank you. are leveling now, some of the other stories that are making headlines this hour around the world at chili's president says that his government will nationalize the lithium industry. now this is the latest challenge to electric car makers were scrambling to secure supplies of the metal to make barons chilly. has the world's biggest lithia reserves and fall into mexico in nationalizing that sector. the pope and donald trump are among those losing their blue check. verification on twitter,

twitter owner ilan mosque says that the checkmark will be removed. it has from accounts that do not pay a monthly fee, celebrities retaining the blue badge include taylor swift and barack obama. or to sports news. we start with soccer wear report say that ex byron unix coach. eulley ona guzman is now out of the running for the managers job at struggling english club. chelsea. he had been the big favorite, but who would want to join a club in such a crisis? it is that he sent over for healthy. the answer is pretty much yes. since americans are boley took over the english club last year. there's been nothing but trouble. they crashed out of the champions league this week and away down in 11th in the premier league. that's despite lavish spending in the general transfer window where chelsea shelled out really 70000000 euros more than europe's for all the big leagues combined. there was so many new players that they couldn't all fit in the

dressing room and hardly any have settled then you club chelsea's doorkeeper has had to defend the owner after you slammed by fans for being a bit too. hands on. he thought i came to the change room every, every game. so he had like different chat with with us, different games. and i'm not gonna say what he said, what is his normal when will he change? well, he came to do a change of supporters of compared bully to hapless u. s. fictional soccer coached at law, so even joking, he might be the next manager after all bullies on to his 3rd coach already at the 2nd champions league when thomas taco and then his successor, graham porter. after the 6 months, he's brought back club icon, frank lampart as interim coach, despite his poor record as a manager. and chelsea of so far lost all his 4 games in charge. you know,

people will make a law about issues of the chosen because of us how much success. and the reality is, this comes going to be back and it will type work, and it will take my live air process form by immune coat. julian now guzman, when the ponders league a last season and had been the favorite for the permanent chelsea job. but reports he is now out of the running bullies. tenure has so far been more horror show than hollywood. he must get the next decision. right? if chelsea to reach for the stars again and mark meadows who made that report is right here with the big table from the w sports to talk about who might be stepping into footballs. hardest to see. it isn't, i mean, scorcher martin. this is a high profile job, and it seems that mr. you, leon, now guzman, he's not going to be the one to get it. no, i mean he was the favorite, but reports were coming out today that suddenly he's, he's not in the running half the reports in britain are saying it's his decision.

half a saying it's chelsea's decision. i think he's biding his time. maybe for the real madrid job. yeah. because there's a chance even though they might wanna know the champions league, there's a chance that they'll still fire their coach galvan shortly because when the spanish league and that's not good enough. and also brazil want to take angel, lottie, so i think he's waiting just to see if that big, big, big job comes up. maybe doesn't want to go to chelsea the, i mean, you could argue a club that has these kinds of problems as a place. maybe you want to stay away from. exactly. i mean, it's a, it's a big mess that, i mean, as i said in the piece, they got too many players, and you can millionaires to get changed in the corridor at one of the richest sports teams on the planet. i mean, it's absolutely insane. what's going on there for you like a year and louis enrique, the former spain and barcelona coach was linked that's gone cold. now look, trying to reach your party. tino is now the favorite. now he's ex tottenham. told him we're also looking for a coach and it was assume he go back to talk and but if he goes to chelsea they'll

be absolute uproar. it's like driving a, b, m, w for years and years and then suddenly driving mercedes. it's just a volkswagen buyer. we know that they've struggled since not what's been left. what was it just last month? me? do you think that we might see him go back? i actually think is a possibility because the buying board are now in such trouble for what's happened . you know, they got rid of him with a treble still possible. now they're going out to the gym and cook out of the champions league under thomas douglas took a low. he tends to stay at clubs. 2 years maxi caught an abrasive, character, and bye no said the only have jim's beacon coaches and there's not many out there. he's only 35, so i think he might return. i will, we will see mark medicine because the sports is always marked. thank you. thank and now we want to check out more news from the world of sports to women's soccer where england captain lee, a williamson, has been rude out of july's world cup with a knee injury. european champions will now be without a key player in australia and new zealand in tennis arena. sub olenka has

reached the semi finals of these stood guard open after surviving of skier on the clay against spain's hollow. but those are the ruffians of a laker, one the australian open this year for her 1st grand slam title. she looks in good form for the french open in may are in staying with tennis and we're going to tis raj. it's a greek 2nd seed stephanos because he has eaten australian. alix did manila to power into the semi finals in barcelona. open play court tournament is missing star name of an adult due to just an injury. and his re, rival is taking full advantage of that sub c carlos alcaraz of spain is also through vladimir putin claims that ukraine has no national identity and is historically part of russia. ukrainian artists are now pushing back against that

claim. a new ukranian ballet has opened in the latvian capital, riga. the dancers are from latvia, but the creative team behind the production. they come from keith. ah, the performance is full of passion and exuberance. but it's also philosophical and thought provoking. the belly void by ukrainian choreographer. rado pauline tato is based on story by nikolai google, the 19th century writer was famous for his works, focusing on rule life in his native ukraine. it's garago, which is like the most ukrainian or classic barriers and palm in we all know this service play from childhood, but the stories ukrainian kroger for the korean music is ukrainian is very beautiful, very, very slavic monastery student

coma. brewton is confronted by supernatural powers. he's forced to spend 3 nights praying over the coffin of a young woman who's actually a witch. the blood culminates in his death and the 3rd night. when the voice, the king of the nomes is brought in the valley 1st premiered in keith and has now been stage by the same production team in the latvian capital riga. which it suggested to you. we want to show a european audience that there is a distinctively ukrainian national art. this is important because for many years, decades and even centuries, there were attempts to suppress and destroy this art. they tried to turn it into russian. alt go. the warn ukraine has once again heightened those concerns. lethia has taken in thousands of ukrainian refugees. not all of them have stained many travel on to other western european countries. but there still a huge sense of solidarity here with the people of ukraine. a new opinion poll

shows more than 80 percent of the laughing population support ukraine stand against russia. there's also clear support for ukraine joining the european union and nato, the ukrainian artist in riga, hope that their performance will further strengthen the public opinion at the offset, the forced to wear, offering a completely ukrainian production or the it's a way of supporting our country in these terrible times settled on life for 45 years, latvia was itself under russian dominance. as part of the soviet union, russia's warn ukraine reminded many here of that time, which they refer to as the occupation. during the soviet era, latvians worried about losing their culture and identity just like many and ukraine today. we will, you will just fighting for territory if it was irrelevant who lives on these

territories in the future. the war would be pointless. where fighting for our culture in this war, and this here is my frontline as musician. i'm doing all i can to ensure our soldiers have something to fight for on the front lines. motion william wills us to lose those scanned the production for parallels with the ongoing war will be disappointed. that's precisely what the producers were keen to avoid. they want to show their country and culture in a different light. in the firm, conviction that ukrainian culture as a peaceful future or his reminder. now the top story we're following for you this. our ukraine's western allies have been meeting at a u. s. air base here in germany to bolster support for key and it's war with russia. senior u. s. defense officials say that nato stands with ukraine for the long haul, and that american takes do in the fall will make

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