all because there are some nato countries who have not hit the target yet. and who are saying, for instance, canada and they are spending current me about 1.3 percent also to the p on defense . they're saying that it's difficult for them to spend more. but a bose installed back employed, austin said today that there are confidence that there will be an agreement by o l. i is because of course, facing this very difficult and change your political situation. russia's war and ukraine, more and more allies understand that they needs to spend more, that there is the needs to have those 2 percent as a floor, not a ceiling. germany, for instance, a, a will hit the targets next year and in 2025. however, only due to the special funding that they will invest on uh to

buy new weapons and weapons systems. so the prospect is for o allies to agree on that, but they are not there yet. another important issue both is addressed was the nato's nuclear posture. in response to most scouts stationing the nuclear weapons in a bela roofs. uh, what did the nato achieve and also the us defense secretary say they that nato's reaction would be. so both of them very cautious here. and one senior official told me that they believe that to buy a noun, seeing the transport and stationing of nuclear weapons in biller was status, was put in as trying to do to unsettle nato's decision, made, making to confuse them, and to force them to react. so both leaders were very cautious and there were the

remarks, the nato, a chief insult and back. so a sat in the, quite a sort of new wording today that nato has seen some preparations that this decision announced by the crumley codes happened that they are preparing for from supporting nuclear weapon weapons to be alert was however, they also stressed that it's not that decision now to react to that. so there are staying very calm, but stressing that of course, need to is deafening. they are a new clerk strategy accordingly to what is happening on the ground. but i found that there was also a talk about the nato ukraine towns. so i don't know whether much more is known about this beyond voc stoughton back said in the, in the news conference. but can we expect that one to start going to be?

so we have to remind ourselves that at the moment, ukraine is meeting with the nato and nato allies in the so called ukraine nato commission. and now the decision is there by all need to allies that this political state tooth of ukraine width made to will be upgraded. so this a new ukraine need to counsel will be established. and that will mean that ukraine will be meeting with all the 3rd to one allies as a quote. they will talk about all important issues. they would have access to a probably more intelligence sharing. they will have access to more areas of corporation. so this has since seen definitely as an upgrade of ukraine's political status, which nature as a much,

much closer cooperation. and i think we're going to leave it here to w is brussels build, see if i sign up on the reporting from nato headquarters in boston's thank you alex, we move to all the news. the greek coast guard says it will end an operation to find survivors of wednesdays, both tragedy later today, between 40750 people. i fear to have been on the vessel when it capsized and went down. 78 people have been confront drones now. the 104 of the men and boys were rescued and have been taken to a comfortable of athens. all women and children were reportedly below deck. so as he said, there was no hope of finding any one else alone. a freeze has been criticized over its handling of that emergency and early on, i aust judith assembling from the human rights watch what she thoughts about the

greek co sconce response. well, yes, they actually absolutely could and should have done more. of course, there are many, many outstanding questions about what happened and that's why we need to have a full, incredible investigation. but i can already say that arguing that they were justified in not providing assistance because the passengers on the boat didn't want it is unjustified. it's not a legal argument. the boat was clearly in distress is clearly and see where the an overcrowded and the have that it coast guard, and indeed any, any best or in the area had the paramount obligation to provide assistance. and do you have any reason to doubt was the a greek coast, gotta say it's very early to tell um, as i said, what we need to see is a full incredible investigation. i will say,

however, that there have been several instances in which we and others have documented misconduct. 5 atlantic coast guards, including participating in push backs uh boats and individuals in the gmc. so there is, there are precedents to raise some very serious questions about their action. now a moment ago we had some a break for the tuition, the form a t m a race. let's just see process that legal migration roads on needed. is that the viable solution or? well, of course we and many, many others have been calling for years for creation, defense and the state legal channels for asylum seekers and immigrants to reach the countries of the e. u without having to risk their lives on these incredibly dangerous journeys.

what instead we see is the e, you focusing on ceiling. it's borders on pursuing the trend at the trance measures that only make these journeys more expensive and more dangerous. and we've, we've also seen the advocate almost entirely it's responsibilities for a search and rescue. let's see, and do you think that enough is being done to fight the traffic is well, i think that it is actually something of a shameful to version of you politicians and decision makers to focus on the role of us mothers and traffickers. obviously, there are extremely unscrupulous smugglers and traffickers are committing a very serious crimes, but people turn to smuggler, it's because they have no other options. and the increased availability of safe and

legal channels would certainly help to minimize the number of people who have to turn to smugglers and put their lives and livelihoods in, in those, in those hands. the broader of responsibility i would argue lies on e. u. member states and the institution that are failing to adopt rational and to me rights respecting, migration and asylum policy. now, greece and actually i'm on the my main passage ways into the you full of migrants from africa, asia, in the middle east. what legal migration routes that we discuss, the idea of what, what they look like as well there. all sorts of options. i mean one, a very obvious one is uh, a increased re settlement of recognize refugees. there are millions of refugees around the world uh, identified and recognized by also by the human

h. c r a. there's a whole system in place for resettling. people from the countries where they 1st fled and were recognized as refugee to other countries where they can really be built that their, their lives. the e u has a very poor record in the number of people that resettle every year. another other options include ensuring there is a greater ability to apply for asylum once, while you are still outside of the country it's of the use. so for example, to cancel it and, and the seas as well as a whole range of measures to increase the ability of, of people for coming not for international protection reasons, not because they are fleeing or persecution, but because they have the skills they want to work they want to study, they want to participate in the arts. so a whole range of, of measures that could increase the, the chances of people being able to get

a visa and, and travel safely. judith assembled with that with the human rights watch. thank you very much. thank you. us here in germany, police as the rest of the man from the united states in connection with the death of an american tourist us most launched on castle. the female victim is alleged to have died off to the man pushed a friend down a steep slope. they reportedly had resisted sexual advances by the man. it's one of germany's most visited tourist sites. but on wednesday it became a crime scene. as one young tourist was pushed to death down the steep ravine at noise, fun stein castle. so we saw that there were rest doors repelling from this helicopter, and we said, wow, i mean something must be going on. and then i took a little bit of a closer look and i saw someone in

a blue shirt and seemed to be laying still hundreds of feet below the helicopter. the 30 year old suspect, the victim, and her companion of old tourists from the united states. police say the suspect met the 2 women shortly before the attack. they then work together to a view point. given the younger of the 2 women was attacked by the suspect. the older woman tried to rush to her aid was then shocked by the suspect and pushed down a slope upon you know, subsequently the younger woman was allegedly sexually assaulted. some not taught the unit, and then the suspect allegedly pushed her down the slope even close to the police, say the suspect left the scene, but was arrested nearby soon after a judge has ordered, he remain in custody as police and prosecutors tries to piece together what happens besides loan b par joy,

which means dissolves to in been goal him has hit pots of india and boxed on. intends winds and heavy rain had lost the deserts at coastal towns with roofs blowing off houses, streets, and electric, both uprooted in india as west and state of goods. that almost 200000 people were taking the 2 shelters in preparation for the store. this family from down on the course is taking refuge in an unfinished shop. the stone view of the roof of the in my town. now that's how they told me that i'm the only thing in the shop with my kids and be haven't eaten anything that is being terrifying. i don't want to, we don't know what lies ahead of us. come, i don't know if my home is still there or not, i'm not, i'm not going to take another day when you said, come on say nothing isn't all to we couldn't expect it cycling deeper. joy has a polluted hundreds of trees and lift housings of homes without electricity in india. hey, variance has slighted separate cost areas. emergency

beings bad have been struggling to excess of religious set and focused on with the impact has been smaller last year a witness that li flats, which had affected more than 33000000 people for that product. these here see didn't mean an alert scientific cycle. it's triggered by walmart, this are becoming more frequent and intense in producing that he can see with this thumb form, now hired by up to 1.4 degrees celsius. then for decade, fickle leaving millions of people the funding to get the dig stream for that events . still watching dw, near c. as a reminder of on top story, the greek coast guard says 9 survivors of one of its limited to radians was shipped as aust. us have been arrested on suspicion of people spotwood. at least 78 people

have drowned when a fishing boat carrying migrants cap sides of the coast, greeks hundreds more are still missing. and that's it from me as a new stain for now. my goal is to estimate how it will behave of the latest world news at the top. and so i'm gather office from me in the news team here in berlin. thanks for the

1st 30. the news aisha coming up today. sorry for the b. 5 drawers, destructive land, full in india. the countries western good. you're not state experience. have a strong winds, rain and damage. as the 5 joy makes land phone, we hear what you can expect in the coming days plus dropped in many.