to that's how they can also watch it. now the, this is the w and it was coming to live from berlin. nato's annual summit begins in vilnius with a pass opening for sweden to join the alliance, while again stalking back says he is confident nato allies will unite around evasion for ukraine, joining the military to live. well, that would be welcome news for ukraine, but it's ambition to join nato quickly is unlikely to be fulfilled and hopes to get

a roadmap to membership. but others in the alliance fear such and we could talk about russia and devastating floods. unusually heavy rains cause dozens of depths across northern india, bringing destruction and misery in there with the l. o. m. terry martin. good to have you with us. nato heads of state are missing in lithuania today for a historic summit where they are expected to lay out a path for ukraine to join the alliance without a clear timeframe. leaders started arriving for the 2 days summit, which opened with fresh momentum after hungry said it's rather if occasion of sweden's native bid is now only a technical question. this after turkey said, it would allow the north country to join. after months of blocking the accession, i was speaking out of for him just hours before the official started the summit,

nato secretary general, you installed him back welcomes turkeys decision to forward sweden succession bid to his parliament for ratification this. so somebody is on historic summit because we have all of the made the agreement that the insurance to, to sweden will become full touch the member over the lines. and this is good for sweden. it is good for to can yeah, it's good to for the whole nathan on. so i know police that's good for the both degrees and for the train on the other countries in this region. let's cross over to dw brussels bureau chief alexander for nomine, who is in building, is covering the solid. alexander just yesterday. turkey is leader said, here's a country's approval of sweden's native bid would depend on the e u, reviving accession talks with turkey. now turkey is giving the green light for sweet. what has happened as well,

according to turkish officials, do one got everything he won to today are presenting the negotiation yesterday as a big success for their presidents. but when we look at what was actually achieved yesterday and with, with kind of concession of this president at one god's view of seeing that they don't see things like a huge deal. for instance, sweden has to read with to repeat, to continue to work closely with them together on counter terrorism. but so they're also saying this needs to happen with being the legal framework we and they need to respect the rules law in their country. or when you look at what the turkish officials are describing as the you being willing to speed up for negotiating talks, we have to say those folks are at the moment still stalled and we will see whether

they can could be reviewed again. so as you can see, they were concessions of but not really huge ones. so my assumption is that was just important for the turkish presidents to appear here as a strong man, as a strong leader. he who is representing the interests of his country. but at the same time who's also being a responsible, reliable ally. so the summit is getting underway with sweetness membership bid resolved, it seems. but what about ukraine, alexandra, what options are nato leaders discussing regarding ukraine's past to membership? so we certainly know what they agreed on. they agreed to politically upgrade ukraine, stay twos with may 2, there will be an you need to ukraine council that will have its 1st meeting

tomorrow where ukraine will be sitting with old nato countries at one table as an equal partner with more access to different areas. of corporation, ukraine will get more money and more equipment more training. so the military package made to us offering will be rent out. however, the quick quick key question here is whether in the final communicate on which old a nato leaders needs to agree. what are there will be any mention of sentences, like, for instance, ukraine's rightful place is in a till or we are inviting q queen to become a member once the war is over. that is what you queen wants to see. and it is still an open question whether leaders can agree on that. another big topic for this summit is they those plans for strengthening its eastern flag. this has considerable urgency. what's on the table there in building a settling center?

well, what is on the table, and it's a broad approach that nato is taking for the 1st time since the end of uh and since the collapse of the soviet union, they're seeing, they want to increase their to terrence and defense, especially on the eastern slang and then means more troops, more planes, more ships in this region. and what is also new as a new rotational model for or a defense here for the baltic states. this is very important for those states who feel bone or both and who are scared that if anything happens, nato forces might not be in time to defend their territory. like sandra, thank you very much. i correspond alexander phenomena, they're in vilnius. so ukraine is eager to

join nato, but the prospect is difficult if not impossible for a country warp spike that ukraine is calling for the lines to give it a clear path to membership. so what assurances cannot expect to hear at the nato summit? let's take a look since russia's full scale invasion last year, ukraine's deputy prime minister all has to phoenician now has been making curricular trips to brussels. lo, being cards to convince officials here to give her a country a pos, to what's nato membership. and literally comment to you from the country and the war was to my children remaining in care. while i'm here in brussels, we're are starting to get my application for the moment. this decision shall be taken and this will not them is now, ukraine says it's already fighting with all kinds of western mates, weapons. and they have proven themselves as the 1st line of defense for europe. and

they have been waiting for need to store to open for many years in 2008 doing their summit in bucharest, romania, nato leader. as promised ukraine would become a member of the alliance. but they stopped short of saying when and how for fear of provoking russia and some nato countries, us too cautious among them. germany, netscape, clara, i'm talking about clear statements from nate to that ukraine has its future inmate too. but it is also clear to all concerned that the admission of a country that is a drawer is simply out of the question for beating 62 days life. and here's why natal nations take a collective defense blanche to protect each other in case of an attack. this problem is known as optical 5 for the native funding act is at the heart of the lines. so admitting you create includes, puts, need to it, into direct conflict with restaurant, but it's immediate membership is out of the question. why not offer ukraine

a roadmap to accession or make clear it comes directly after the war. and it's what's many of ukraine's biggest, because of pushing for ukraine, should be member of the nato allies because it's pro 4 of our come on the security and to of course, we need to to be united. so that's why we are open to discussion about the day, so it, in my opinion, and we should present to a pop so to, to, to reach this goal. but in the meantime, ukraine is fighting a war and this year in no, that's why behind closed doors, the u. s. and some european nations are frantically working on security assurances . they could individually offer, such as providing ukraine with weapons, advanced technology and between those efforts are being closely watched in russia, which has always seen nato's growth as

a threat to its own security. something via lions denies. for the time being there appears to be no alternative to the fighting for ukraine. negotiating with russia now would mean giving up territory and giving in to an unjustified plant in patient all hashed. if i knew should not, is to tournaments to keep pushing. still hoping to see sooner rather than later ukraine slack raced at the alliance as headquarters in brussels. so what's that steak for ukraine at this summit in, in vilnius nit connelly is standing by 4 skin cube. a. nick, what are you cranes, expectations going into this summit? what do they see as a realistic outcome? i think know, and hearing key of expected membership as long as the fighting continues, as it has for the last year and a half, as long as the full scale invasion is going on, that was never going to happen. but certainly people wanted to hear about that kind

of roadmap and a comp time frame. once the fighting is over, for ukraine's membership, no vague guarantees no promises of tools and some kind of intermediary station with some kind of why that's what guarantees they want full on nature membership and they want to fall as they say, this is a political rather than a technical decision. look how quickly you took the feelings, how quickly you took the swedes, and we want the same. they say ukraine is providing security for europe. has ukraine folded on the rest of the tech? there would be russian troops on portland's, eastern florida, and that would be much more expensive and much more difficult for you right now. so there's a real sense here in ukraine that you can isn't just kind of asking for help asking for support, but it's also bring something to the table. and there's a kind of lack of sense of kind of running out of patience and wanting more reading hood from as an educator running to this that he wasn't confirming his parents at the summit until he was clear that they would be kind of concrete take away from this meeting, he didn't just want to set up for foot drops, but we believe he is a jew to meet search of button for by less listening. it's pretty unlikely that

he'll keep joe biden waiting, so he is expecting now in vilnius, but still no real clarity about what's gonna come out of this meeting. so let's look at the context here and nick in 2008. ukraine was told by nato leaders in an official declaration that we'll join the alliance. 15 years later as membership is still under discussion, how to ukrainians. feel about that. well certainly membership is a lot more popular in ukraine than it was even in 2008 according to most of the polls about 90 percent of ukrainians want the country in the alliance. a lot of the responsibility for that decision back then not to offer ukraine more pulse and say to was put on local in germany's shoulders. there's a real fear here that the same could be repeating itself that germany is even more reluctant than the us to move this process forward. and the message from keith is actually taking your brain into the line. so reduces the risk of for the will for the conflagration, for the escalation between russian, the west. they say russia is unpredictable. yes, winnings take risks,

but not suicidal if they knew that ukraine was learning the you, but also in nature that were basically and rushes aspirations as part of the world and put an end to the fighting. we've seen here for the past year and a half. so there's a real sense here that that was opportunity missed and that they are trying to get as many west the open country to basically take the jump to take that leap and not be afraid of triggering russia. but instead they say this is somebody who would actually make things easier and reduce the risk of a fight to nick. thank you so much. our correspondent nick connelly there in the ukrainian capital key sketchup on a couple of other stories making headlines around the world today. journalist and mexico are protesting the killing of colleague luis martin's son shots. he was a correspondent for a leading mexican newspaper. sanchez was found dead on saturday in the western state of night, or it more than a 150 journalists have been killed in mexico. and the last 2 dec trying to rain and

south west japan has killed at least 2 people on monday. and the toys fear to rise as tens of thousands of residents were told to evacuate their homes. a week of steady rain has caused rivers to burst their banks and has soaked. they are collapsing in deadly lands. lives like here in correct so well, dozens of people died in flooding as torrential rains sweep across northern india. flash floods and lands lines have destroyed highways. and homes across several states in the north of the country, a 100 and daily authorities in the capital were forced to shut schools there on monday. so it is indeed, a seasonal monsoon rains are getting heavier as the climate becomes warmer. heavy as a normal monsoon rains tend to be s river into a raging torrent in the north indian states have him on shall per dash. the rushing

water destroyed roads damage, power lines, communication systems which time codes rescue assets or distribution victims. road restoration will take some time, but our priority is to restore electricity and mobile networks so that we can receive information regarding any other stranded paper. so we can rescue them. we have a so where there was which not the guys have got them. good scientists say climate change is making them on soon rein, stronger, and more unpredictable. thousands of people have died because of the floods of cross northern india. sally was inundated with a highest rain full in a single day for 40 years. swelling the amino river which runs through the halls of the capital. local media report say thousands of people are already being moved to shelters. as the river reaches dangerous levels,

the south westoff job paused biggest hospital a medical college were left wading through the woods. the floods such was say false, they had no time to evacuate the patient alone, they get caught on everything despite being such a big hospital. so much water has been said within just 3 to 4 hours of rain. so you can imagine the conditions in other hospital patients are facing problems that have not been moved yet. of course we have a son. yeah. has health work has tried to pump out the water from the hospital rooms. india's weather agency is full costing more rain in the days to come. and our daily bureau chief, i'm rated cima joins us now. i'm ready to give us a sense of the scale of this flooding. with denny was very badly affected. there were 2 days of torrential rain which affected large spots at the city. is that even the center of denny?

you had houses of ministers and follow me intelligence which was to bulged in water . now of course everybody's saying how did this happen, why was, is not enough adequate, get taken. but the problem really has been that this one soon was very strong and very unexpected. it came earlier than anticipated. everybody's asking themselves, why should we know, how should we do with this? but the worst effected areas in the mountain is regions the stage of you much are produced on the neighboring state of the con, villas that up flowing versus lead down here, destroying everything in that box and flowing down stream. they've also actually affected 2 of the planes states that's fine job and too much for these large tracks of from land us to budge. and the people are facing a lot of hardship without any electricity, and even the whole lot of destruction and a lot of distress as a result of this m once in vain. how well is india prepared to deal with

flooding on this scale and read? so how, how it was for it to use co pay. so well, this is an unprecedented really strong bon soon. we have to say and it also came earlier than anticipated. every year we get the monsoon. but this year, for example, debbie b hud had got the highest green ford in for 2 years, and he much probation, which is the worst effect. it's good one months reinforce in 2 days. so the situation is unprecedented. but having said that, the government could have been better prepared. the monsoons come to debbie and to india, every single yeah. would many sit every year. the government seems surprised that they've come now much more needs to be done in terms of infrastructure and drainage . a hedge of the month, so it's not as strong, but once the months is already here and then environment and us have been saying for years and years. but in the mountainous region, that is particularly g o,

an ecologically sensitive that one has to take care of how one does develop and that, but that message doesn't seem to have gone through as quickly as it needs to to what degree right here is this flooding being linked to climate change every time that there is a disaster of this kind of history, the huge concerns and things made to climate change. for example, i'm standing here now in debbie at the banks of the human river, and this is now flowing at the high danger level, mach. so this huge concern that this good busted binds and cause tremendous hardship. many of the people who are living in low line areas here have moved up the really to above or under file was a close by. so that gives you the human cost of this kind of disaster. and the cost is that people talk about links to climate change, but what does happen every time does a disaster of this kind people talk about climate change. but all the lessons

really learned, as i mentioned environment, as i've been saying for us that we must change the development model. we must make sure that in the mind to this regions with a particularly sensitive but there's no deforestation. the glass is melting. but once the crisis is over, people seem to get on as normal as if nothing happened. and the challenge really is to make sure that the link between these doctors and climate change is overly talked about. but action is taken to me to get such disasters happening in the future. i'm going to thank you so much for your reporting. that was our deli bureau chief. i'm read that cima. a protest ever updated across israel after the countries parliament that connects it voted in favor of a controversial build limits. the powers of the supreme court demonstrators waved is rarely flags and we're chatting slogans against the move testers. block several roads and major cities. police have made several arrests. the decision to cut down

the court power has led to months of protests by the opponents. we call it an attack on democracy. the amendment won't become, will come into force until it passes to more from a met 3. let's let's bring our in our correspond attorney kramer here. she's in front of the supreme court in jerusalem, trying to tell us what's happening there. it was just some time ago, there was a huge simon station here. and this is what's happening. as you said, all day since the early morning, the protests is called this a day of disruption. so what they're doing is they're going from no and bigger junctions, like uh, this one here behind me, there's still some protest as around a trying to disrupt the traffic we've seen in the early morning there seemed blocking the main highway between tel aviv in jerusalem. he's also seen even here in front of the supreme court while i'm sending no board attendance where he and

also mountain police. no police are trying to get people off of the main junction to make sure that the traffic can go to. and this is coming, of course, and a response to this bill that those pos and the 1st reading just not very far from here in the connected on monday nights by the know, make us of the, of far right government. dramatic scenes there. what is it exactly that makes this proposed legislation so controversial? if it does become law, what would it mean for the people of israel? well, i apologize this you say, this is a key moment actually in this whole long process that have been protesting for 6. now a month, no, there's no let up every start today, but also doing all the days and time. so this bill is basically to restrict the power of the supreme court to block government decisions of alexis, government officials, and what they deem is unreasonable or implausible. and why don't think sancho said

often is referred to yes, except that this government wanted to re appoint the deed of this house parties. part of the coalition, a government, a prime minister benjamin netanyahu. but the supreme court said this is no reason to vote because he had been convicted already a full corruption charges. so of course, this bill is just posted on the 1st reading is now going back into the call me to this. i'm told that in my to them i try to soften the bit. the language said the wording of this bill. it still needs to go to his 2nd and 3rd reading. but the government, he has said those one to push ahead is what they call a traditional reform. what the protest this call it traditional overall. they said they want to push it through before the end of disconnected session, which is by the end of july all these protests says, you mentioned tony, have been going on for months. how much of a threat to they pose to nothing. yeah. whose government well,

i think the prime minister benyamin to mentioned y'all has a very comfortable majority in his government. but what the protest this have managed to far is to block, basically to slow down this search edition overall. but what we're seeing right now with the government is trying to do is to posit law by law, but somebody a call just allow me tactics. so that pos, the law here, law there and, and then move on. but i think what it has done is actually bringing this country really a par, tearing it apart, and the hearing again what they've seen in the past months. you know, groups that are very essential here, like from the high to, from the security. again this morning. we understand the volunteer pilots and this type of specialist intelligence units, you know, saying they really don't report for reserve to, to if this 110 years. so it's really tiring the country bought. and it's essential . tanya, thank you very much. that was our course by the 20th kramer in jerusalem. so

to south africa and people in johannesburg woke to a wintery surprise on monday. the 1st snowfall and over a decade there, the flakes were treat for some but forecast. there's more in the cold snap could put vulnerable communities at risk. this is no ordinary site in johannesburg. it is winter in south africa, but the cities leafy suburbs don't usually change color. the snowflakes floating around the announcement, the stature in the city center, the last time it snowed here, the national icon was still alive. residents enjoy the spectacle. well, it's a good thing even though it's very, very cold. it's not tom out, but it's very cold. i remember our fist noise and when it's cold, so it's a nice experience. as you can see, the snow. it's something that doesn't end up in like heated every time. it's just

amazing. the way that looks beautiful, you know, is amazing. todd, the i don't know how to say we had some children were delighted to see this city to and white for the 1st time. but for the fun, the snow has its drawbacks. the weather service want a full driving conditions and said the isaac temperatures. those are risk for the cities homeless despite these problems, many residents will be hoping that it won't be another 11 years until they see snow again. this is just a reminder, the top story we're following for you here today on the w news. natives annual summit opens with dates installed back boeing the nato allies will send a clear positive message concerning ukraine's past towards membership in the

military lines. this follow signals that sweden now has a clear path for its membership, and this is the, the news coming to live from berlin. if you want to get any more news or information, you can always do that. of course, any time you want on our website as the w dot com coming up tomorrow today, and terry martin for me and all of us here dw, the

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