the mountain life, the universe of like a superpower. and were series of 40 to the answers almost every thing this week. on t w ah ah, to city w, news live 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 bronstein base american tanks, we understand for ukraine will arrive soon. ukrainian troops will be trained here inside germany. also coming up as ramadan ends, a fragile truce begins in sudan,

but witnesses, their se, there's no letting up in the fighting. more than 400 people have now been killed as the army battles paramilitary groups. and folk, frances and donald trump, among the celebrities losing their twitter blue ticks. today he la musk says he'll remove the verification from any account which fails to pay a monthly fee of $8.00 please. ah, i'm brent golf. it's good to have you with us on this friday, and we begin with the latest plans to help ukraine in its war against russia. keeps western allies have been meeting an air base year in germany to day the most senior u. s. defense officials, every period pledge is to stand behind ukraine for as long as it takes, and they promised that american tanks do per delivery in the fall will make a difference on the battlefield. a show of solidarity for ukraine from its western

allies as the war continues to rage. us defense secretary lloyd austin, plays the groups efforts so far for announcing washington's latest contribution. we've also expedited r m one abrams timelines to supply ukraine with more armor capability in the coming march. and the oman cert, ukrainians will use for training arrive here in germany in the next few weeks. and all of this is huge progress for their part. germany and poland announced the creation of a tank maintenance hub. it's location just over the polish ukrainian border would enable tanks to return to the front line more quickly after repair it is monthly or less. he every piece of equipment that is supplied in this war, where the tank, so combat support tanks and other equipment such as how it says or patriot systems is subject to wear and tear. especially when they are in continuous use in combat

or do so, i am very pleased that together with my polish and ukranian colleagues, i was able to sign a memorandum of understanding will set up a joint maintenance hub in poland for the entire leopard to fleet for to get them to leave lifelong ministers and nato secretary general un stockton berg reiterated support for ukraine's future nato membership. but the focus for now, they say, is on helping ukrainian forces defend the country against continued russian aggression. or for ukraine's perspective on this, d. w is robin controlling her in keith told us if this the announcements today, if they are what ukraine was hoping for. 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 the more ammunition for its anti

aircraft systems, long range emissions for it's across 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. and 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 of just educate needs, those anti aircraft systems

a christ has some. the worst has delivered some, including patrick system with systems which are very good. but ukraine needs much more. we've seen in the past days in the east of ukraine where the heavy fighting is continued. but 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're operating from a distance. so you create, you can needs more support from the west on that front. but in general, ukraine has, if you look back a few months back on the west, western countries have delivered a lot of new weapons, heavy weapons to clay, like a main battle tanks like german leopard, 2 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, and the fact is a debtor, nato and ukraine are very, very close partners. and that corporation 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 earlier when you're in summer to gave or to have to hear more from natal than just the saying that you create 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. not africa sedans,

army and a rival paramilitary group have agreed to a 3 day truce at the end of ramadan. but witnesses say there still have been fighting of the capital r 2 for the 400 people have been killed. thousands more injured since violence are ruptured a week ago. ah, the cool to pray rings out across this district in her team. as worship is gathering site the most to celebrate, eat the end of the holy month of ramadan. they all say praying for peace, a live jani, my law doesn't get it because we don't feel like it's each has everything that's happening. walker, i'm about law. it was the same over the last few days of ramadan and humbly learn a lot. we thank god anyway, let's go the will. we're talking about a blue dog. what's taking place is inevitable since your country ruled by 2 leaders and cannot move forward that often walk there can't being to army as much over that

. wherewith the armed forces of the people in the land say are the people also with our to know what's happening with the law. which other fighting between the army and the paramilitary rapid support forces group has continued for a week. all attempts a ceasefire. have so far proved short lived for with the airport closed and damaged the e. u. in the 7 member states with missions in sudan including france, germany in italy, miss try to get an estimated 1500 nationals trapped in her toom out safely. inside a deutschland disease, but when the number of germans who contact us is growing every day and is currently in the low 3 digit range. as of today, friday afternoon, we inform local germans daily with the so called compatriot letter on the latest developments. going to some of them also currently cut off from all communications i need to find in is in the outside our fund,

our common cartoon up cushioning. but as gunfire resumed in her team shortly after the 2 sites announced to 72 our ceasefire. this latest truth is already crumbling. abiola, while dang is an african affairs analyst i asked her or what can be expected from this cease fire agreement between sedans, army and the rapid support forces? i think it's clear this far is, is not holding. i spoke today with people in, in the capital town earlier this afternoon in which 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 the fact that these armed forces have come out and informed 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. people are having difficulty getting food. people have to didn't having difficulty getting water spoken to people who even maybe twice in the last week. there's 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, 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 hard to do we know if these evacuation efforts are they're making any progress it's, it's on sure 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 kenny, i have officially announced that they are planning to evacuate citizens. so, so yes, there is perhaps likely to be some attempt at evacuations. 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 eastern bold. we appreciate your time and your analysis. thank you. all right, let's take a look now. some of the other stories that are making headlines around the world. 10 members of the same family had been killed in a mass shooting at a house in south africa. leave say that they were ambushed by an unknown gunman in the eastern city of peter mounted, spoke south africa has one of the world's highest murder rates. after 4 years of trying, mexico is finally sold, its unused presidential plane. tajikistan has bought it for $92000000.00. president

andre manuel lopez over the door who's refused to fly in it since taking office in 2018 says that the cache will pay for 2 new hospitals. chili's president says that his government will nationalize the lithium industry. this is the latest challenge to electric car makers scrambling to secure supplies of the metal to make batteries chilly as the world's biggest luthey reserves. it follows mexico in national wives and the 2nd arch. other news and more changes under way it twitter, which has begun. removing many of the blue ticks that you see by someone's name used to verify the platforms, accounts of authenticity, celebrities including the pope, donald trump. they've been affected. twitter owner, ellen musk says that the check marks will be removed from accounts that fail to pay an $8.00 monthly fee. he also says that he personally is paying for some subscriptions, including those of author stephen king and billionaire billionaire,

basketball star lebron james. earlier we spoke to matthew fini. he is head of taken innovation at the london based thinktank center for policy studies. since a lot of fake accounts have already popped up on twitter, we asked him what more we can expect to come. there's been at least 11 issue with a new york state affiliated with our accounts, dealing with impostors. and this is exactly the kind of problem that blue take verification emerge to solve, which is that the more prominent on account, 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. 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 adversary. you're actually w news. kid ferguson will be here after the break for your business update, a skilled worker shortage in europe. biggest economy? believe it or not. that's the case right here in germany. have a good weekend everyone. i'll see you again, right here on monday. every jenny tries is we've got it all out you one day in the put that.