the, the, this is the, the, you know, he's coming to live from berlin. turkeys. leaders says he may finally agree to let sweden join nato, but there's a catch present ad one says other alliance members will have to open the doors for turkey to join. the european union is pitch comes as native leaders prepared to meet for the annual summit or the war. and ukraine is top of the agenda. also

coming up, russia, it hits a school house in ukraine's operation region with a missile strike killing at least poor people. as they line up for humanitarian aid, that's according to the local governor are correspond, it has the latest. and we bring you the highlights of the weekend, sporting action, including women's wimbleton singles. the handshake debate rages on between athletes from ukraine, russia and belarus. other more coming up at our sports, blown the hello and terry martin. thanks for joining us. lithuania is capital is preparing to host a historic nato summit. have a high security gathering. turkey put forth a new condition for approving sweden's nato membership, turkish present richard time or the one said his country could agreed to sweeten joining the alliance on this. the european union resumes its long stalled

membership talks with and crow. at one made the comments before departing for business where he is set to meet with swedish prime minister of christmas on later today. the 2 day summit comes as nato is carrying out its biggest revamp of defense plans in decades. from what else i am joined by the w brussels bureau chief alexander at fund nominate alexander what those are the ones stipend now mean for sweden's nato membership in well, i think that we can expect team knots to immediately dropped piece objections to sweden's native bids. so we are not going to see any break through here in zone use . and i think that the new turkish demands will be seen by many nato allies as another prove showing that the turkeys relationship with the alliance is

transactional. first ad one wanted sweden to change its anti terrorist legislations to, to lift its arms embargo against her key, then which is sweet indeed. and then there were some rumors that the one would like us to sell american made of $165.00 to judge to turkey. and now he is demanding from the repeating union to open its way for turkey. so i don't think that we are getting anywhere here with regards to sweden's in, nate to membership, but okay, ukraine wants to join nato as well. but us present, joe biden says ukraine is not yet ready. the, during the summer, it's headaches under a possible security guarantees for ukraine will be discussed. however, what sort of guarantees are we talking about as well? i think it's important to make clear here that we are not going to talk about any

security guarantees or assurances that need to, as alliance would offer it to ukraine. but we know that some nato allies, like you asked the okay, friends in germany all working behind the scenes on bilateral agreements and they could offer you queen to continue supporting it's. it's with weapons with training, with intelligence sharing. so that is what is probably going to be discussed to you on the sidelines of the summit, but it's not anything that the alliance as a whole could offer to ukraine. so as we prepare for that summit to get underway, we've got nato secretary general young stoughton back there. he's due to deliberate joint address with lift when he is president. good. thomas now said, uh what we expect there, alexander well, i think that he is a certain the going to be ask about the president or the once new demands. and war

2 is making all of that. and of course, stalking back to the lead to a new president, mr. nosey to also going to talk about the deliverables of the summit. as you mentioned that ukraine is on, at the top of the agenda and the support for ukraine. but me to leaders here in the building as are also expected to approve the new defense plans for the 1st time. since the end of since the end of the cold war, nato is working on such plans in detail how to defend natal territory in case of a russian attack and 4 countries who are on the eastern flank countries just as lisa in yeah, the host of the building is, this is really crucial to know that nato is ready to defend its territory when needed. this is under thank you very much our correspond alexander, fun, nomine. they're in vilnius. while you cranes says a russian attack on

a residential area in a town and these operational region is killed for people and wounded 11 others, the local ukranian governor said the attack hit a humanitarian, a distribution point near the front line, killing 3 women and a man ukraine shared pictures of the debris, which it said, resulted from a russian guided aerial bom, that struck a school where residents were collecting aid. russia denies deliberately targeting civilians. earlier i spoke to our correspondent conley in t. v. i asked him about the latest russian air strike on ukraine. so this was in the town of what each of which is pretty close. the front lines just south of the regional capital is up. what is it? it's a matter of it doesn't know. so it comes as to the front positions of the credit, the only way a lot of that kind of most intense fighting is going on right now. the scenario that often comes on the fire, we believe from the emergency services on the ground that that figure in terms of

food f might still arise. more people still believe to be under the rubble. and these guided emblems, really all a real issue in this part of the country, especially because they allow russian 5 jets to stay further away from the danger of ukraine's anti aircraft systems and send these very lethal weapons in which all basic in old school gravity boom with the kids attached with basically wings attach that allows it to live over quite some distance. and these are just much heavier weapons, much heavier will head than most of the systems that would normally be used in this situation. so we think on time again, real system casualties. when it comes to humanitarian age, most of the places you go in that part of the country. they keep their location secret till the last moment because any grouping of people, any kind of crowd that is seen by drones, of a head to meet the attract attention. and often it is that kind of attention that kind of attacks who this is a very, very dangerous situation for students to be. well, it's one more reason why ukraine wants nato membership,

but present so landscape knows he's not likely to get that at this week's nato's summit in vilnius nic and instead. so as he says he's looking for the best possible result from that summit. what exactly does he expect back? so i think we're all guessing, and i'm pretty sure here, even ukraine's government hasn't finally understood what it is. it's going to be offered. we heard about these potential israel style security guarantees which push it doesn't involve the us or of the nature of countries putting that troops on the line will they commit to the us at least and out to do would be to provide weapons . and basically, just to go and financial support i'm, i think we're disagree. the beginning of it wasn't expecting any nato membership, while this will continues, but they were expecting a clear commitment to membership as soon as the war, its current phase is over. and now i think they're worried that this kind of security guarantee is gonna be basically a kind of small assault kind of compensation that would then be used to kind of kick the topic of full nature membership down the line long enough. and potentially

the fairly soon you can, once the bombs don't fully ok of the facility and kind of sort of dirty with you, ukraine will decrease in those countries that are long being skeptical about extending those guarantees. 2 grand would then use that as an option to kind of look full major membership from understand that present zalinski has been talking about progress that his forces had been making in the counter offensive against russia. go more. can you tell us about that next? as well? suddenly ukraine has taken over a 100 fact. i'm so tired treat in recent weeks and by some estimates that's more than the russians able take over the whole of the winter. but it is very different going because you can always now facing mind feels that the russians have laid a very kind of heavily engineered defense lines that allow the russians to really dig in sits in and to kind of make it very difficult for the ukrainians to go into a fence and that's where those cluster bombs that the us and now promise come in. they, if you listen to the ukraine, alice would be crucial in attacking on the vehicles on the russian side,

but also groups of russian soldiers. and crucially, they are available in very large numbers in those american also is in contrast to conventional nations that are running dangerously low and weights. really proving very difficult to up the production in any kind of, you know, short term scales of kind of logistics. so that is the hope that once these us cluster munitions, it all very controversial, especially once they arrive in the front lines. it will be more realistic for ukraine to push for and to actually start sending those russian front lines backend, causing the kind of a chaotic seems to be so last thoughts. and when the russians have to basically escape flea from headstone into thoughts of how can we to nick thank you very much for now. our corresponded n t a. nick only the grants leadership has called for patients as is counter offensive. makes little progress against the dog in russian front. do you have has not been able to announce any major by their feet battlefield victory since it began the spring, but says every square kilometer is worth fighting for ukraine

launched at the spring offensive in june after months of anticipation. but so far gains have been modest, even president below them here is a lensky, has acknowledged that the counter offensive has been slower than many had hoped. me see the 1000000 everything is easy. there are some difficulties because 1st of all, all on his mind that's we'd like to be making bigger gains. so that's smaller than what we have on this case. a look at ukraine's geography helps to explain why. for months, the front line has been largely and changed. its thought ukrainian forces would try to push through russian lines in the south and east. one of the areas that has seen heavy fighting is around the southern town of or a cave. as satellite imagery show, the land is mostly patchwork fields and those fields are flat, huh. which poses specific risks for ukrainian forces trying to retake the land?

it means having to cross open fields which have been heavily mind and which are exposed to a fire from the air, as well as from russian troops hiding behind the tree lines. and beyond those open fields, ukrainians are encountering elaborate man made trench defenses that the russian forces had months to build. the defenders also had time to put up so called dragon's teeth to stop tanks. then there is the learning curve of in military experts say russia has picked up from its mistakes earlier in the war, and as adjusted its tactics to the conditions on the battlefield. still, analysts say ukraine's counter offensive is capable of making progress despite the unforgiving terrain. but it will take time the greatest military says it did recapture 14 square kilometers from russian forces. last week, i asked military analyst justin crump what that says about the progress ukrainian

troops are actually making in their counter offensive. i mean, it is, it is slow though a point out that's a foster, right? recovery of temperature, it's not symmetric. the masses to you, the russia itself manage during it's a winter offensive, but i think that's the wrong metric to look out here. and as you just showed in the report, i mean there's an extensive focus on all tillery, on breaking to defenses. and there's a lot of things happening that more important than the change in control of the terrain. so actually that the wiring down and russian artillery, i munition, the wearing gun irrational tennessee capability. there's a lot of things happening in the field of electronic bulls that particularly against drugs to save them a huge amount from across the field. so i think the progress alone is not the end you mentioned. i think looking at those other factors, you can kind of see whether or not ukraine is succeeding in this. certainly making progress as let's use that much slow and the like, love to, of practice and the russians on to this point. they haven't been able to do that.

they all wearing down the russians in many places model. okay, well, putting those metrics together. i mean, however you measure it, do you feel that the way that the counter offensive is moving now suggests that it, that you crank and ultimately achieve its ends at this rate of progress as it can ultimately i think the many perhaps had before that this would be a sort of crushing blow in this house that the russians would crumble on contact, i think is obviously proven to be false. that was a very aspirational hope at the best of times. but i think now again, it just depends on ukraine being able to keep up that rate so far. they've changed into balance ministry equipment quite a lot. there are some reports suggest that you try not to now has more tanks and russia has the 1st time in history, certainly an operational level. and if you look at some of the very old equipment brushes rolling out that, that supports that, this are actually about 10 or equipment. we're watching cassidy and not stephanie way ukraine. let's focus to just put some re some weeks to try and change that

a previous book 100. so russian autism rate back in ukraine's favor. i think what we seen in this war with the search rate and you have in the south, you know, it's hillary, it is really, really essential. it is definitely winning operational movements. it's not the war itself. and of course, behind the lines also reducing russian logistics, reducing russian supplies by munitions, of the ability to bring forward, sped barrels, new equipment. you're the old place onto this. so it's a very complex picture. and ukraine is going to get ahold of that right. but in anything we're at a point we can say that you credit is failed or that you find well enough to be when i think it's so very much in the balance for a slow and steady operation. this week, ukraine's allies are convening at the nato summit in lithuania, what decisions if any, could be made there to help ukraine when this war? so it's tomorrow. and we said before the program, the,

the key effective events in russia a couple of weeks ago with progression is the fact that now the russians, i think of law, some are all the kinds of us have gained some more. all whatever happened with all of the actual, um, going on behind the scenes, which i attempt to meet me. i think most importantly west and back to the view create and probably increase the result quite a lot. we've seen that all the way we took a taking it from alignment rusher and recent days. and i think you'll see that the summit as well. um, so let's discuss before they think it's possible if you're trying to joint nicer during this complex. i think not starts building realms of likelihood, but of course you tried looking for support looking for a long time, reaching a to and something like that to come out of the summit, plus, of course continued commitment to the site that ukraine is undertaking. and i think if we haven't had events in rusher a couple of weeks ago, the way they were there might have been a bit more doubts at this conference. i think now there's gonna be a lot more positivity and also from nature as i'm thinking ahead about what, what happens off of this conflict. what is pressure looked like in the future?

what else might be alliance up to think about? and that might add some effort really to efforts to just sort out nature's minutes . you come on to the east, which we're seeing some moves towards germany, of course, as, as increases commitment the, the mental states of the commitment has changed me about the defense of eastern europe. we'll look for more in that domain as well to see if the military planning advances in line with the strategic plan. we sort madrid last year just and thank you very much. as always, that was military analyst and strategic advisor. justin crow. it's now let's take a brief look at some of the stories making headlines around the world today. at least one person has died and authorities have urged hundreds of thousands to evacuate their homes as floods and landslides hit south western japan. some areas of experience, more rainfall this weekend and typically falls in all of july and depends whether agency is predicting regions heaviest, rain ever thousands of taken into the streets and hate these capital port her

prints calling for an end to gain violence and the humanitarian crisis. in the caribbean nation, un secretary general, antonio gutierrez, is called for an international force to help pay these police restore security. us lawmakers are calling for an investigation into prime a popular energy drink, arguing it's high levels of caffeine are dangerous sports target market of children . the drink is backed by youtube, stars logan, paul, and k as a and has become an obsession among their followers. 6 people, including 3 children, have been killed and an attack at a kindergarten in southeastern china. police in the city of young and young in china is gone. don't province have arrested a 25 year old man. suspected of carrying out the knife attack officials say one teacher and 2 parents were also among the dead. of course, all the probably in christ, bob has more with the tech happened this morning,

local time in the southern province of glen dawn. and a 6 persons have been killed among them, both adults and children. and we know that the, a tech a, the suspected a tech has a 25 year old man who has already been detained. as for other details, it's really very difficult at this point to independently verify them because the police will not talk to media. they only refer to the official and use hand out by the government owned and use agency st. juan. and any independent reporting local by local media has been sent to it. so the censorship is quite a strong. why also? because it's a very emotional topic here, it's on social media. this was the number one discussed issue today. and many users have been calling for death, a sentence for the suspected a tech a. and while actually i'm a gun loss and also public security. it's very strict and those incidents do not happen very often, but sometimes they do. and many schools in recent years have um for example,

we acted by installing gates and fences and um yeah, yeah, security gates and sometimes even security personal in front of schools and kindergartens, which also make sure that no um, an authorized person. a people including parents will not enter the premises. in tennis day 7 of a wimbledon saw plenty of action. and also once more politics played a role after russian and demolition players were band last year, they are back but ongoing tension surrounding sand shakes with ukrainian players re surfaces. 2 players respectfully handled the issue in the women signals for a week and a wimbledon. the competition and where the hosting up top women's play iga should be on take struggle to win the game spill in. differentiates the world number one saved too much points going to close run, come test on center court. it's the 1st time to publish play. it has made it past the 4th round at wimbledon. the next highest rank remaining play is jessica

peculiar. the world number 4 has now completed the full set of grand slam singles quotes of finals, often nothing else ukraine's messi at suit income. thoughts compatriots elena spits alina caps, ukrainian title hopes to live in a match that swung back and forth over 3 sets and ended in a tight tie break. she came out on top, the weld numbers, 76 beats bella, rushing to victoria as of ink. and one small decline defense shake from her opponents, holding on tournaments organizes to release his statements to stave off the questioning until um, russian troops are out of the prime and we come and we take a back our 3rd, there's not gonna shake hands. so i have clear statements,

so i don't know how locally i, i can be, you know, how's that income also seems tired of the debates of to being booed by the crowd. the, what, what can i say about the crowd? there is nothing to say she, she doesn't want to shake hands with russian ball or i shouldn't people and i respected her decision. i did what, what, what should i have done? stayed and waited. like, i mean this is there's, there's no thing that i could do that that would have been right. so i just did what i thought was respectful towards her decision for suite to the end of the journey as i'm seated under continues into the cold of finals, perhaps with fewer questions, but a tough task in the form of opponents because to be on to russian men head this sunday to remember at the all england club, andre roop left was one of 2 to make the last 8 on sunday, the 25 year old,

one in 5 dramatic sats and played one of the shots of the tournament to bring a match point it is opponent, alexander blake, was left stunned and the crowd round their feet. that's more than 3 hours of toilet route live at a spot in the wimbledon order finals. in formula one mex 1st often has one the british grand prix ceiling. his 6th consecutive victory in the process is team red, bowl equals mcclare in 1988 record of 11 winds. in a row with clarence london norris briefly took the lead at the start, but went on to finish, 2nd in front of a $160000.00 fans at silver. so fil a britain and 7 time world champion, louis hamilton took 3rd for mercedes. red bull remains on beaten after 11 rounds of

racing. this is the quick look at some other stories from the world of sports in gulf. allison corpus has won the women's us open, finishing 9 under par to seal her 1st sale. pga, title the 25 year old from hawaii claims the $2000000.00 prize, the biggest ever in the history of the ladies professional golf associates in mens golf cameron smith survived to scare on the final hole to win his 1st tournament of the year. he sealed his victory by one shot at the live gulf london, finishing 368 to the australia will look to defend his british open title of royal liverpool in 2 weeks. which there is so she must have signed the 27 year old defender lucas hernandez from buying munich for reported 45000000 euros

a 2018 world cup winner with friends, hernandez won. the german leak up, the german league comp and champions league trouble with byron in his very 1st season, past the club or. and finally, if you're one of those people who feel like the world is moving at an ever faster pace, this might be the spectator sport for you. more than $200.00 racers slugged out of the annual world snail racing championships that took place and a small village in eastern england. and it was to say there was no date for a photo finish. it's the grand prix of snail racing. the column in norfolk england's has hosted the snail racing well championships since the sixty's. it's a full stop to some races, but once snail slip it into the slime night early on playing and she was missing.

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well championships to you're watching the news from brielle lambs. just reminder of the top story we're following for you this our triggers present road trip type out of one. so this is country could agree to let sweden join nato. if the european union reserve was installed, membership talks with diaper, he made the offer on his way to lithuania, which is hosting the they to alliances annual summit, this i'm terry martin for me and all of us here at dw, thanks for watching the

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