the, the state of the news line from berlin, the u. s. is sent to announce the cluster bombs for ukraine. the pensive on is expected to include thousands of the controversial weapons and a new military. a package for the fight against russia. rights groups are raising concerns, also coming up nato prepared for a key summit with

a focus on membership for ukraine and sweden. there are questions over the alliances capabilities. us general tells dw nato is not ready to face any threat from russia. and police and canyon fire tear gas ad opposition. supporters. protesting tax increases. dozens are arrested, responded as the latest from nairobi. the article fairly. it's good to have you with us. the by ministration is expected to announce a new military aid package for ukraine. that includes controversial, cluster bombs, keefe, once the weapons for the war with russia. but the bombs are banned by over 120 countries because they kill and maim indiscriminately human rights groups. say both sides have already used them and oppose. more being sent to you. cree,

a graveyard dismiss aisles 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, the 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 new cranes dot net screech, and which was his in march this year by cluster bombs. local find, find to is trying to contain the damage undetected cluster munitions that don't explode, control, so name will kill 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 implying a 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. or it's, we're is a senior crisis and counseling research her for human rights watch. and earlier he told us more about the bumps, dangerous well, these web is already here. we indiscriminate not just in their 1st use with our 1st is 1st from these large weapons. and deliver over large areas where they can be limited to military objectives, but also because a large number of these are the smaller subdivisions when they saw they don't get

any. and with this is their last for years, sometimes decades. and it's a serious, serious danger to civilians or really anyone that comes into these areas and that can be devastating for civilians. are we devastating for retirement efforts? exactly, because these weapons, again are just for me. they don't do it. they don't distinguish between a child or a soldier once they're only around. and ukraine says so that it will deploy the weapons judiciously and that many front line areas are already riddled with land mines anyway. so is there a responsible way of using cluster munitions? while the congregations and the reason that over half the countries in the world assigned up to band is because there's no real way to live at the effects of contributions. again, you know, you can use them in, did you get an area where there are fewer civilians?

once you disperse these words, there's no way of knowing how many of them really are going to fail and then leave civilians at risk. and do these weapons in cleaning up these areas as well. there are huge swans in the country that are contaminated already. adding more smaller weapons that you know, kennedy to job or handled by people and a serious injury or death. having more of these is not a solution to the work of clearing these areas. extremely dangerous, and time consuming. and most of the rest of the people who are doing this amount of work or just as well. but if these cluster bombs could potentially help ukraine to beat back the russians and potentially speed up an end to this war, a war that is costing so many lives. couldn't that be worth it as well. this is about this year into the basic principles of international law and the law which

call on countries uh to uh to make sure that the screens between combatants and civilians. it means that they are also these a t causing coughing, or cautioned in order to protect civilians. and every time for the next 2 years of useful tools. when finding out more, it doesn't matter if it will speed out of work as an excuse for engaging or using weapons in describing qualities. my question may the secretary generally in stilton work has implied understanding for the use of cluster bombs for defensive purposes . so for a use in this case, in russia doesn't shy away from using them because we know, and you have documented extensively that russia is using them as well. is it fair to expect ukraine to not respond in kind? i think it's fair to expect you crying to, to live by his obligations under international law. this is something that ukraine

has repeatedly said that they do in all of their operations. and this is an important time to make sure that they do. they stand up to that obligation and they abide by their obligations introduced into their work even if that implies them being exposed to, to greater risk than not being able to respond to them as well in using these letters there. it's also exposing other people and since specifically they're all civilians and around the territory tourist for really unknown periods to kinda that'd be years in 3 days. and so there's also responsibility to ensure that as well as they're using in order to find this war, are ones that don't cause, you know, i'm necessary indiscriminate arms to civilians and that's why i'm using munitions are banned. and that's why we're, we call on all states, not just russia and ukraine, also the united states in every other country,

not to use our not to transfer them. and not as far as ridgeway or with human rights watch. thank you so much for your time. great. speaking to you, in the meantime, nato leaders are preparing for a key summit next week that will focus on membership for ukraine and sweden. but there is another significant concern for the alliance, whether it is actually capable of dealing with any threat from russia or use general. so dw nato is not ready. 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 bella ruth and colleen and grad known as this, a walking corridor with the aim to cut off the baltic states. 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 gates and 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 journey 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 are remember gauge that 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 full guerria

for a training exercise. we discovered in the last minute that the bulgarian 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 off a little tons of light. 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 can union could and actually had to work together . the alliance needs the access, the you has control over regulations and funds for logistical upgrades and 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 a heikki 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 video to me came a priority at the, at the u level. nothing much has happened just to give you an example of currently at the you level the objectives to reach maximum 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 get higher points out. the necessary changes in europe won't happen overnight, is it's a continuous process that takes years. so if we have started, i don't know, 15 years ago now we would have been better if we started now we'll see in 4th. and the results may be in 10 years. general hodges says the new military plans to be adopted at nato's bill. me a summit. should we do 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 terence is going to continue to be seen as some sort of a bureaucratic, a thing that just needs to be sorted out. he says, is past time. now to get serious to thousands of opposition, supporters in kenya, half protests of tax increases. police fired tear gas into a crowd marching into the business district in the capital, nairobi the government, them post tax hikes just when many canyons are already struggling with rising prices. of the central commodities lights group say police have arrested dozens of activists around the country of correspondence, felix maureen, goes, covering the unrest from nairobi and earlier he described the situation on the streets today so that protests began slowly in the morning, but towards the afternoon they gained momentum,

the opposition lead the match with the protest. i'll come mcclintic drugs which is just outside and they will be they had that meeting and they started the much towards this central business district of that particular point a to where police fire gets kind of started. i the protest of the protest. those felt at stones, the police and the thought became they kind of running bottles for the better part of the process. but also in other parts of a country they'll, uh, people who are invested by police. and in the morning they had barricaded drugs. they had lots of fires across the country and some of both well, actually arrested and i've now in custody is what exactly are protestors out on the streets demanding. so the main thing that protests of i demanding is to lot that the government throughout the cost of living, however, their position has also been pushing for an expense on and to the loyalty party of democratic space where they see that the current regime has actually been shrinking

the democratic space, and so they're asking for the democratic space to be expanded. the protest of also ones that electronic, the phones are done and we spoke to a number of protest those. and this is what they had to see us. because to pick up in your minds, if we sit quietly and do nothing like my life and my future will be effected, i won't be able to a, to you. my goal is to get in my silence, but it is part of my kids future. that's why i'm protesting fine because the amount of physical amount a month. me, me keep what time would you like to see change is the cost of living to go down and commodity prices to become to the team. i then wrote this have not affected me for how i have earned my daily weight and we'll let that guy go out or be one of the protests to go on. even if he do not make any money today. the work was over here too. all right and felix, where could these protests go from here? you think so from here the opposition has launched

a citizen driven process so that by they'll be we are hoping to collect 10000000 signatures, which they said they will use the signatures to us, the president and the deputy from office as to whether or not what will happen if them is a case of wait and see. secondly, they have promised that they put the protest will be going on in the weeks to come . so they will announce the dates. and after that, the protest i will be back to the street. so that's is what will happen from here to explain our ring and narrow. we thank you so much say to now for the the news age by the sometimes to have that you out to the highlight for sure every week. not the, not the hello guys. this is this.