the the, this is dw news live from berlin. the us signals that it might send cluster munitions to ukraine. white house officials say that decision is under active consideration as part of a weapons, a package, although it has not yet made an announcement. the news raises concerns from human rights for also coming up as tough to continue for sweden to join nato,

and there are concerns that help prepare the military alliance of the e u. r. to confront a threat from russia. we have a report as another top male player bites the dust at wimbledon, norway casper. rude loses to home. favorite brody in the shop around the sierra kelly. welcome to the program. the us administration is expected to announce in $800000000.00 military, a package for ukraine that could include cluster bombs. he wants to weapons for it's ongoing counter offensive against russia, but the bombs are highly controversial. they are currently banned by over 120 countries because they can tell indiscriminately over a wide area threatening injuries to civilians. human rights groups are raising

concerns about the decision of the graveyard dismissals and hockey's, the remnants of russian munition. to have devastated civilian life in pulse of ukraine. among them, the rockets used to launch cluster bones, a large number of small explosives packed into these containers and released me to with the potential to close extensive damage to an area of the size of a city block such as hit in cost, intuitive cost assist. you in ukraine's dot net screech and which was his in march this year by cluster bombs, local firefighters trying to contain the damage undetected cluster munitions that don't explode. can also may move killed people decades later. on thursday, the pentagon press secretary defended the use of the weapons that is pointing the

finger at moscow. so essentially it can be either loaded with shaped charges which are arm or penetrating or they can be loaded with fragmentary munitions, which are anti personnel. so clearly a capability that would be useful in any type of offensive operations. i would note that the russians have already been employing cluster munitions on the battlefield . human rights watch says base russia and ukraine have used cluster munitions. so fall in the conflict and has cooled for both sides to stop immediately. and waste more than 120 countries having signed this convention to ban cluster bombs, we asked you create correspondent and economy how key of justifies using this controversial weapon or wanting to use it. i think that number one argument is that russia has been using these throughout, in large numbers than ukraine has. and they would say, if anyone should stop using these munitions,

it should be the russians and see if that is a clear kind of face of your country. with more results, as with more different types of options, should be the 1st to take that step. i think it's also important to kind of zoom out of it. the bigger picture from the print inspector visit. they already feel like they've been limited in lots of things they can do. they have their hands tied behind their backs in a way, trying to protect their country. they're not allowed to use less than weapons against russian territory. they haven't been given the kind of claims or helicopters that would allow them to protect different lines that the russians are using. the new los numbers and these cars that emissions, all these cluster homes are an option. they are basically available in serial numbers in the us. also, they wouldn't be any running time that could be quickly delivered. they don't take any special training or preparation. so there's something we could make a huge difference to ukraine's comprehensive right now, rather than these more complex, expensive technologies that take a lot longer and full of kind of physical problems about people. different countries. not wanting to give the information for these systems to be transferred

to. this is a kind of real option for ukraine at the time where they are having real problems, trying to push through those rest of the positions that are being built up as the last 6 months or so. but this one of the concerns, one of the key concerns is that cluster bombs are in precise. they tend to leave behind a large number of uh, or they tend to be behind some, unexploded munitions or they could do so similar to minds posing severe risk to civilians. the chief not share that concerned, especially seeing as these funds might be used on territory that ukraine hopes to recapture of the. as for the in precision, i think it's important to bear in mind that urban real fast settings with lots of civilians still left like of the go button with those are the kind of exception running through most of the fighting right now is going on in pretty open country, agricultural areas in the south is afoot, egypt, where they're all comparatively few civilians directly around those positions where they're already all of the mindset people of culture being told to not go anywhere near the fighting. so i think that is less of

a risk than in the open setting world. see, we've seen damage civilians as into the in consisting of cost as for the kind of long term impacts in the day, just civilians. i think these battlefields and ukraine already so heavily affected by mines by booby trapped by all kinds of left of munitions that there is going to have to be a huge key operation off of this war. as soon as the active fucking has ended, and they're always going to be areas where civilians are going to be kept household for years to come. so i think this doesn't really qualitatively change situation because this is a situation people are already living with where we see civilians losing lens being killed, day and day out trying to you know, go for water or collect firewood. so this is not necessarily a new kind of escalation in terms of it's dangerous to civilian populations. nicola liam king. thank you, matt. how exactly do these cluster bombs work? i put that question to mike martin, a military analyst and senior worst studies fellow at kings college london. it says

a come in a variety of different shapes and sizes. they can be dropped sometimes they can be fired out to the tennessee. they can be on rockets, and essentially what happens is when that over the target they explode and they and they drop multiple. so you know, up to a 100 smooth bum let's, i got food onto the target and they have a variety of minutes she uses. so for example, if you want to take out an ad field, you can drop it over the runway and that will pitch the runway and make it unusable . if your enemy has lots of stores and supplies, laid out very good for that. and also, if your enemy has troops that are in charges or in the open, they can be very useful for that as well. how useful do you think they might proven the ukrainian pace? could they really make a difference on the battlefield? sure what we can say that any one weapon system is going to be the thing that you probably needs to win the war, but as possible, you know,

a well regulated military operating within the laws for which as far as i can see it, the monument ukraine is they all very useful. so for instance, that the moments ukraine is doing this offensive and dropping all the pace, a bottomless, obviously, very useful if you'll be, if you'll guy and get on with vehicles, which the kinds are some areas. and then the other areas, the ukraine is trying to take out russian supply them so particularly petrol oil, things that keep machinery guy, and trust munitions are very useful for that as well. okay, mike martin, us and your work studies fellow at kings college in london. thank you so much. thank you. and share some of the stories making news on afford a visit to beijing, us treasury secretary, janet yellen has said that a, the coupling of the us and chinese economies would be, quote, virtually impossible for us said that recently it would limit china's access to

advanced technology in the interest of national security, jaelyn says that washington is not seeking a full sales separation hopper to economies. between our 2. depends nuclear regulator has improved the release into the ocean of more than a 1000000 tons of radioactive water from the, the storage this machine, the nuclear power plant. china has strongly opposed to move level, watch dogs, the international atomic energy agency. the i. e. a says that it will have a negligible impact on the environment. ukraine's president followed him. here's the landscape as in prague for talks with check president petra pablo. it is the latest stop abroad for some lensky after he visit in bulgaria. he next heads to turkey for talks with president richard type air to want was nato had again, stilton burg convenes a meeting with leaders from turkey and sweden hoping for a break for lunch. sweden's nato membership. there is another significant concern for the military alliance. how prepared in is europe to provide

a coordinated response to a threat from russia, a needle maintained it's got allies completely covered. nathan will protect every inch of allied territory. but candidate nato has forces in fire power, pre positioned in 8 allies along its eastern flank. but if russia were to attack, for example, the narrow gap between bela ruzen, colleen, and grad, known as the so walkie corridor with the aim to cut off the baltic states. if we cannot move fast enough, i think this is very dangerous that the russians can see. and they are aware that we could not get to. let's say this a walking car door for the full sean gate down in romania as fast or faster than russian federation forces could give their retire general ben hodges as an expert in military mobility. and to his chagrin, immobility from the years he was charged with ensuring american troops and their

equipment could respond quickly to threats. loads of red tape and lack of transport capacity topped his list of blows. you can not even live a couple your fashion, germany without special permissions. there's not enough real cars in the cargo. don't you buy a cargo to move more than one and a half, or remember gauge at all over europe simultaneously? that's nothing compared to what we would need. and then there's the lack of inter governmental communication. hodges recalls a special moment in 2017. when you as paratroopers were dropped into bulgaria for a training exercise. we discovered in the last minute the demo, gary and ministry of interior responsible for their borders. we're going to have officials out on the drop zone and expect to see the passport of every parents river as if they had just got an awful lot of times of flight. and i was like watching. another issue is infrastructure such as bridges and roads that can't bear

the weight of heavy tanks or tunnels, which are too narrow. fixing these problems was long ago identified as a key area where nato into europe in union could and actually had to work together . the alliance needs the access, the you has control over regulations and funds for logistical upgrades in member states. but after years of plans, task forces and projects and now war next door, the potential remains largely on paper policy analysts and the height the highest spend to months researching the current state of military mobility and was dismayed at his findings. definitely, i was surprised given how many years has passed since know through the team, we came a priority at the, at the level. nothing much has happened just to give you an example of currently at the you level the objectives to reach maximum of 5 working days to get permission to cross borders. that's quite a lots, right? they want to make free for rapid reaction, forces 5 working days, waiting on paper work for each country that would need to be crossed. that's the

goal. meanwhile, moscow has no such barriers, and can hire points out. the necessary changes in europe won't happen overnight, is it's a continuous process. it takes years. so if we have started, i don't know, 15 years ago now, it would have been better if we started now we'll see in 4th and the results maybe in 10 years. general hodges says the new military plans to be adopted at nato's bill. me a summit. should lead to a big improvement because possible more time responsibilities will be assigned by regions reducing transport times. but he's still worried to everybody gets serious and understands why this is to the benefit of the alliance for parents is going to continue to be seen as some sort of a euro craddick. uh, thing that just needs to be sorted out. he says is pass time now to get serious

here in germany, the far right of the party has seen as popularity search lately. in spite of the fact that the sections of the party are seen by many experts as linked to extreme missed and antique democratic circles, it has won elections for local government positions in a couple of the eastern states, giving it access to the levers of actual power for the 1st time, and the parties poll numbers have risen to a historic height. let's have a look at the in for test the map survey. this is a gauge of public opinion. we see that the a, f d there in blue is pulling a 20 percent putting the party in 2nd place behind the conservative cd. you see a few block one and 5 would say that they would vote for the a f t and a national election more than any of the 3 government parties. this is despite the fact that over 2 thirds of those asked to say that there are too many right wing extremists and the party that suggests that some supporters do not like the radical views expressed by leading a if the figures, for instance, their attacks on muslims and immigrants, what some voters,

on the other hand seem to appreciate about the a f d is the selection of issues that they challenge the government on. although they do not necessarily offer good solutions to those problems. the a f d has identified law and order as an issue where it can when support over half of germans in this survey think that the other parties don't understand how important public security is. jim. it is most controversial right wing party is having a great summer support. so the alternative to germany is higher than ever before. and the 10 year history in the eastern stage of the range year one vote during 3 now backs the day in june for the 1st time, the policy one executive power. it was only a local government official, get the f. d is jubilant. it's actually 21 percent plus on the federal level and on the local level or in the community and district where we want to

direct mandates. so you can put it this way for everybody who thought terms cans to lend slide. yes they can. but the, if the is not just another political policy, its members include many follow writing streams. and it's under observation by the intelligent service expert, allegedly, undermining democracy. so what explains the success? the established parties do a terrible job and they are getting from batch traverse by the day, by the hour. they want to force people into a central planning, central planning, edit cute, and that's etc rated. and more and more people react to it. concepts, me check and see if the has always been successful with issues that increase speeds as well known that we're living in times of multiple crises. there's quite

a bit of fear out there. they are of even more immigration refugees and other migrants. and so then of course there's the fear of rising prices and the fear of an encroaching steak to i'm able to see can start fears, drive people to seek. then alternative. how should these stand based bounties respond so far? all have said they will not cooperate with the a f d. some politicians even talk about banding. it. chancellor sholtes display down just right behind us pin. i mean we have the phenomenon of right wing populace policies in scandinavia, the netherlands, austria, and germany. they exist elsewhere in the world as well, but that doesn't mean they have to become relevant and dominant and that will not be the case. so you realize that those responses don't address the concerns that drive the support thing cause it's i think it could make even more people buy full mouth series for me. what's important and i would say this to mr.

shoulds, prevent blockage, clear the blockages, and look to the feature or the shown minus or is coming out of these in, in my opinion, the only way to turn the situation around is with good politics. my carefully refuting the these claim that the state is weak. dogs which must side the human, federal and state governments have to show concrete action and not just abused to vote for the state talking to this new development. and we looked at our stations. meanwhile, the policy believes it shared with the vote will increase. we are prepared to deliver to the people what they deserve. that means straits policy, silver policies know ridiculous and to do the things which need to be done and still give up things which need to be given up. as long as both has a not put off by the parties more extreme positions, the a, if these good selma seem set to continue. the w political corresponded benjamin

albert as goober is following the story closely, i asked him how germany's mainstream parties are reacting to the search by the far right party in the polls of what those are, the minutes the professor of political science that we just saw, the said is that the ac has always been successful with issues that increase fee is, but we should also know to that the if the is definitely benefiting from the vote to distress in the template. we'll have salt the 3 potty coalition. so the greens, the pro business of the potty and also the city of the social democrats have spent much of the past few months fighting publicly about how to deal with these cries of the f. d is benefiting from some within the party. have acknowledge that the leader of the s p d of the social democratic party recently also set that the search of the a if the has something to do with these very long dispute that is being carried on by the 3 policy coalition. but if we talk of how the parties are reacting, this seems to be no strategy on how to contain on how to deal with the

a. if the sum is chance low enough shall seem to be still down, playing the spread, saying that is a phenomenon that we see in other countries. but others like the city, you will be the free police match. what has been himself criticized force with tory, has been forced to retreat from a problem is that he made several years ago that he would have the f d 's boulder base that is still increasing according to this, this pulse of whiskey. so, i mean, the search that we're talking about is in the opinion polls benjamin if, if there were a vote tomorrow and election, how likely is it that the opinion poll ratings might translate into actual votes for the a, f d are there remains to be seen because of majority of people, 55 percent, dis pull the lease at the if the does not solve problems, but at least named them properly. so the questions that many ask themselves is, is the, if the actually delivering alternatives did name alternative for germany suggest to many, not only from the position but also from the potty costs a doubt on that year. martin, who was a, it is now a full my a if the party lead

a place public and criticize the potty is saying that there is no content that they all know ideas and that the part is solely prophets from the weakness of, of the parties. and the half been power struggles within the party for a long time now. and usually the more radical fraction of it is a power play. retains the power within the party and they are it too many right wing extremists and the party of those something that 2 thirds of those who ask if will this pool has also set the far right a f t. it's particularly popular benjamin in the former east, germany to tell us why that is. that's right. the right wing extremists restoring is particularly strong if fine, so strong support in eastern germany. there was a recent study by the university of lights, again, 5 of the east german states. so states that a home to around a 5th of the german population, the result at the top of those, the west side of it called for an immigration band for muslims. a majority

supported senior for weak statements that for and has only come to germany to exploit the welfare state. so the office big problems of is level 4 b of anti semitism of seeing a full b r a wide spread there. but the far it is not only popular in the full, my east, germany in the states, but also is gaining more support. a port and middle class driven dw is benjamin alvarez. grover, thank you. stan harris and other stories making news for his government has declared a state of emergency after a volcanic eruption in the country. south emergency crews are setting up shelters and prepared to relocate. thousands of people. the be nice volcano has been spewing ash and toxic gas. it also registered dozens of explosions and recent days. the volcanoes last major a russian wasn't 2019 of the. the 1st full run that this year is famous and

controversial sense fed means festival in pump. luna, spain has taken place for people who are injured as the polls rampaged among thousands of on the 1st 400 euros festival, which honors the cities patron saints was again protested by animal rights activists in sports on day 4 of wimbledon. there was more disappointment in the men's draw with top seed, casper rude and tailor fritz. both crashing out of the tournament on the women side, defending champion, elena rebecca keena admitted into the 3rd round and has become one of the tournament favorites. liam brody on cloud 9 in the upset of the tournaments so far. the 29 year old from england knocked out well done before casper roots. brody had to fight back from 2 sets down to one, but eventually out lasted there norwegian in 5 sets. rude at made the final offer,

roll on girls and the us open in the last 12 months, but had no answer to brody's inspire display in the final sense. terry bindix static on crowd and the upsets wouldn't stop there with me co email from sweden knocking out number 9 seats. taylor freights from the us. e mail, it showed as fighting spirit coming back from 2 sets down to stun fritz. and then the 3rd round. also on thursday, defending champion elaine re but key now faced a tough test and the 2nd round but passed it with flying colors in a straight set when over a lease coordinate from friends. after dropping a set in our 1st round match, repeating, i showed a much more convincing performance on center court that sees us or to the 3rd round . a tough task. wait, stare with british number one k t pulled out,

waiting and american. jessica pago didn't waste any time in the 2nd round task, beating christina books as 6164. the number 4 seats made light were a go for unseeded opponent from spain showing a dominant display from start to finish. the 29 year old hasn't progress past the 3rd round at wimbledon so far, and full size, italian elizabeth quotes here, right. so in the next round to you're watching data. you news. a quick reminder of the top story that we're following for you at this hour. the us signals that it could send a cluster munitions to ukraine. white house officials say that the decision is under active consideration as part of a weapons, a package out, the official said this. yeah, don't forget,

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