day for nearly 4 decades choose for peace to be so great of freedoms in their home, then they run in spite of bump. very government reprisals. an income, if you look into how nice the 3 dots july 29th on dw the this is the w news coming to line from berlin. they, those annual summit begins in vilnius with the path opening for sweden to join. the alliance is ukraine's president is due to appear. episode of the data is chief says he's confident the allies will also unite around a vision for ukraine. be complement also coming up in india. devastating

floods. unusually heavy rains cause thousands of deaths across the country's northern states. bringing destruction in misery in there. the hello, i'm terry martin. good to have you with us. the leaders of nathan member states are meeting in lithuania today for a historic summit where they are expected to lay out a path for ukraine for joining the alliance. leaders arrived for the 2 days, so what ukrainian present below them as a lensky confirmed. he will be taking part in the summit, but said he was displeased with the absence of a clear timeframe for his country's membership. the native gathering had started with fresh from men to him after hungry, sad, it's gratification for sweetens nato bid is now only

a technical question. this is speaking to for him just hours before the official start at the summit data or secretary general, you installed the bag, welcomed turkey's decision to forward sweden's accession 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 started. so it will become full touch the member over the lines. and this is good for sweden is good for turkey. yeah, it's good to for the whole nathan on, so i know police, it's good for the both degrees and for the train on the other countries in this region. well, yesterday turkey's leader said, his country's approval of sweden's native bed would depend on the u, reviving. accession talks with turkey as the w, brussels bureau chief, alexander phenomena who's at the summit. and what happened of the well,

why did it happen? is at least according to the turkish officials that so the president at one go to what he need there are celebrating the president for he's a negotiating skills. but when you look at that confession stat, mr. ed one was able to receive, you would say, well, they don't seem to be such a big deal. like have a look at sweden. they have promised to work even more closer, closer together with turkey on counter terrorism. but we should not expect them to expedite and the activities that are considered by to a p as terrorist without the due process without a court's decision. they have also, a problem is to back to our key when it comes to the countries you escalation. and that is also what germany is saying that they want to support turkey. the dad stay wants to back to their aspiration. however, it's not likely that the you is going to start to restart, accession talks immediately because for that we would needs to see some progress on

the grounds. kentucky when it comes to the rule of law or the functioning of democratic institutions. so as you see those concessions, what has been negotiated to you? it doesn't seem like a big deal. however, all the concession seemed to show support for the 2 piece president and said that is probably what she wanted to achieve here. ok, so turkey has come around and sweetness prompt and they took session has been cleared. but what about ukraine? what options are native leaders discussing? alexandra, regarding ukraine's roadmap for membership. well, we know that you crane would like to get such a road map to nature membership. the wants to have a clear perspective. but for nato allies, it is important to be on the same side here to be united. and what we are hearing from i sources is that in the final communicates the final summit stipulation. we

can expect them probably to say that ukraine's place is in nato. but they're also expected to say that it's the war when the war is over. it's up to ukraine and need to i alize to decides to agree with the old, the needed the conditions are met. and only after that need to allies will invites you create joining the alliance. so we see some carefully tailored language here, and that is not what the crane wants. they want to time to time table. they want to clear perspective. and that is why, of the korean president simmons key is to we think that the heat is not happy with the common state of discussions. here in building is another big topic for the summit. if there wasn't enough already, is they those plans for spring funding? it's eastern flag rushes, aggression has given that great urgency, what's on the table there in buildings?

well, we expect you to leaders to approve those plans officially here in the news. and of course, it is urgent to have more ships, more a plane, some more troops on nato's eastern slang. germany alone has already announced that they are going to station and hold the gates in the least doing. yeah. when the conditions on the grounds are met, when the infrastructure is built for those troops, and we are going to to see more troops deployed the eastern fling, nato wants to put 300000 troops on high alert the troops. it could be deployed within 30 days to defend every inch of natural territories. however, nato is also saying this number is aspirational. we don't know. we don't have a number of troops at our disposal right now. so that is a big issue here. and of course, another big issue is that to implement those plans,

you needs to invest more in troops in may be in other forces. and that is also what is here on the agenda in building the w's, alexander phenomena in vilnius. thank you very much. well clearly there's much at stake at this native summit for ukraine dw, as nick connelly is in the training capital, keep next the ukrainian president. it has confirmed that he is attending the native summit, but on twitter, zaleski said that the signals he's been getting from day to our quotes. absurd. what are you referring to there? a terry, this is about the fact that we believe it seems like financial aid is still arguing about how to formulate an invitation for ukraine's enjoying rather than actual membership as such. and so that's just an error, a lot going on right now. there isn't there a lot across the whole on the country from present. i think the real frustration to

see here in ukraine is that right now was this me, so the danger is so present for your brain while people civilians are dying every day. here in this country that the people who oppose ukraine's mean they to membership all kind of dressing up the resistance to ukraine. membership through concerns about corruption or governance and trying to basically take this down to can to a time when, if the minute treat x and on about field is frozen or someone how contains they can then basically to of this idea in the future, there is a real world here, and you can, this is not about reforms about governance that this is just an attempt to basically hide the refusal to let ukraine in the club. and in that message present, lensky went on to say that's based on beauty, leaving this question open is just going to make things more dangerous. he has made it clear tongue tongue. and he believes that as soon as nature makes that commitments to your kind to basically the rest of the danger is of the calls that come to like germany. that it may be reluctant to let, to print in the club would not have to defend your brain because russia,

for all it's level of risk. and you know, kind of aggressive form policy is not suicidal and wouldn't india and try and attract your brain. if it were a nature, well, there's some important background to this. of course, nick, which you know very well in 2008 ukraine was told by nato leaders in an official declaration that it quote will joining the alliance. now, 15 years later as membership is still under discussion, how do you craniums feel about that name? well, certainly that is the same as the kind of call the same as a kind of personal moment of western weakness is something that people here believe . encouraged, i've had my boots and he just felt a war game, georgia in 2007, and i basically recognize the what is supposed independence of to break away those and rated regions at all you have seen is by ukraine is basically being russian proxies. then in 2014 crimea, basically the sanctions, well not much more than a slap on the risk on the risk. so there's a real sense that this fear of russian escalation has just encouraged,

letting me put in. and that now we could see a similar kind of countries like germany, but also the us and extent, very unwilling to go the last step. but beyond providing refrain with weapons, to actually take ukraine into the western club into basically make a kind of line to sign in this bundle and say, this is the west. this is york and we are going to sign up for ukraine is also kind of pride here. and you can people who will tell you that ukraine is actually yes, it is the recipient of a large amount of western support, financial ministry. but it's also doing the westwood for it and if it weren't for your greatness, willingness to sign up to russian troops, then nato would be having to put in a lot more money and a lot more effort going systems like next. thank you very much. that was our correspondence in cuba, nit calmly now to india, and dozens of people have died in flooding as torrential rains sweep across the north of the country. flash floods and lance lights have destroyed highways and

homes in several states. and in delhi as well. the 40s in the capital were forced to shut schools there on monday side to say indeed, a seasonal monsoon range are getting heavier. as the climate becomes warmer. heavy as a normal monsoon rains tend to be as river into a raging torrent in the north indian states have him on shall per dash, the rushing water destroyed roads um damage, power lines, communication systems which can put rescue assets or distribution will take them 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 was not the guys, i've got them go. scientists say climate change is making them on soon rein,

stronger, and more unpredictable. thousands of people have died because of the floods across northern india. sally was inundated with the highest rain full in a single day for 40 years. swelling the, i mean a river which runs through the house of the capital local media report say thousands of people are already being moved to shelters. as the rape reaches dangerous levels. the south west stuff, but job pool as big as hospital or medical college were left wading through the woods. the floods such was say false. they had no time to evacuate the patient for the loan. 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. they have not been moved yet. of course, we have a study, a half 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. earlier i spoke with our daily bureau chief, i'm rates at cima. joining us from the banks of the yamuna river, she told us more about the flooding and delhi and northern, and i'm standing on the banks of the river yamuna. the river has crossed the danger level of mock. here as we came, it will be so hundreds and hundreds of people when sitting here at low line areas. but they've now moved up the roads. and dick and she has to the and on the fly or was their lives i'd risk should the reba booked. it's bang, this has been a very severe monsoon, which is come early. was effected areas on the humidity and regions. the state of the market for dish and the neighboring with the con rivers of flowing, but the rest of the destroying everything in the pots. yeah, sweeping alone houses trucks called livestock. the river slowing down stream. it

was the effect of the states of plain job and hardy, on a large area as a fall bland on the board to the people are facing great, inconvenienced, yes, branded without electricity in their homes. every time such a disaster takes place, the link made with climate change. the questions are being honest. but all the lessons being learned as people wait to see how this is off to unfold. this great concern that this reba should not bust its banks and destroy the lives of many in its spots. so that was our daily bureau chief son research team was speaking to me a little while ago. now iceland, mediator, logical office has urged people not to track to the sight of a new volcano that began a rough thing on monday. lava and smoke began spewing out of a newly opened crevice in the ground. after days of earth quakes,

the volcano is only around 25 kilometers from reykjavik, but experts say there is no danger to the iceland. a capital or it's airport, is the 3rd volcanic eruption in this many years in the area. you're watching the news from berlin coming up next. we've got close up for you focusing on catalogs and it's bids for independence from spain. i'm terry martin for me and all of us here. thanks for watching the, the, the, the, the is, it is someplace her into the more people than ever on the move world wide and such her bathroom. i.