the, the business, the w. news live from berlin you prayed, asks nato to guarantee its security. president to lensky is at the nato summit seeking a backup plan after leaders refuse to set a time table for you crane's membership fence to bring you the latest from building . also coming up the united states ripped by extreme weather president,

fight and declares a state of emergency and parts of the northeast as 2 months of rain falls in 2 days and a mexican standoff, lot officials held hostage by an alleged drug gang or released on harmed doubts from maine about the ability of the local government to maintain order the . i'm sarah kelly. welcome to the program. natal leaders are holding the 2nd day of their annual summit in vilnius lithuania, where they are meeting with full load of mirrors, the landscape. the ukrainian president is asking the military alliance to give his country more weapons and security guarantees. as it continues to fight against russia's invasion, the landscape had hoped to win a firm commitment to join nato. a while leaders agreed to e to cranes past,

they refused to set a firm time table for its possible membership to ahead of today's meetings. lensky set out the 3 priorities, but he wanted to hear from nato members. the feel swan is a weapon. packages, new web them, packages for supporting our army on the battlefield. and that is one the 2nd i think the invitation to need to. and a we want to be of the same page with everybody was a whole all their understanding. and for today what we, what we, what we hear and understand that we will have this invitation well and security measures will allow. yeah. so i want to discuss with our partners all this things and the sold will will speak today and fight for these is security guarantees for ukraine on the way to a to thanks so much and that comment from the landscape coming this morning.

battery guard is following all this from vilnius for dodge umbrella. uh for dw news um found to tell us and we're about to hear more from zalinski. he will also be joined by a nato secretary general again, stone and burg. what is expected that in his bilateral meeting was the nato secretary general, jen started back loaded residents. gabriel, of course, talk about the 3 id priorities we just mentioned and the what's the possibility to let off some steam to show his disappointment about and the conclusion that they don't draw yesterday not to invite ukraine at to membership of membership right now, or even off the ball sealants, he was very disappointed. but now he's also trying to tone down his rhetoric a little bit and, and to look forward to, to, to the, into the future, to ask for more military and the financial help and business. what need to actually

wants to deliver today, and that special meeting at the so called nate to rush and they to ukraine, constance or german chancellor. all off schultz and polanski have just met. what did they discuss to the german chancellor and introduce the new a package that germany is providing to the president of ukraine? 700000000 euros for weapons. and the unison of coasted lives, gets grateful for that. but it's always good of asking for more. and you also wanted to know why gemini was reluctant to push for an invitation for membership for ukraine and the german a chance a told him that he cannot do that because then native would be drawn into that of all this restaurant. this is nothing that nate at that the german, the nato members want to see. and now the question is, what happens immediately off the ukraine then have the security guarantees only

really, that'd be our concrete pause to membership that we're also having the 1st meeting of the nato ukraine council today. phyllis in there. yeah, this is a new diplomatic upgrade. if you want to for ukraine, it's a special concert with the 2 parties. see i do, i ukraine and they do where they can talk on the same level. it's not about the membership. uh, actually it's more about the military help, more weapons, more munition, more financial aid. and, and it's also about the g 7. that's 2 issues. security guarantees for ukraine to make the health more sustainable when it comes to financing at the state and, and the fights against russia. joe biden, to you as president said he is willing to form a model for ukraine. similar to the model of these rode. the israel gets about

$4000000000.00 us dollars every year in new terry 8. and this could also be an example for ukraine, but this has to be talked about in the afternoon, just g 7, which is here also the to jeff in these parameters. also, also, he would meet with the lensky and then issue these guarantees. beyond to create on the summit, the agenda will also be nato's military strategy for its eastern flags. those of those baltic states which are already nato mat members found out walk us through what is plan there they do is trying to strength and it's eastern flings of the country from finland and the noise to book area in the south. they already 8 small metal groups that the shows now, you know, grow into a reader brigade, that means $5000.00 nato troops in each of these countries. but this is not enough . data says they came up with a new comprehensive defense plan for all your pin native territory. it's

a 4000 page plan that has to be implemented, it would take years, maybe decades, to go back to the a true post we already had in the, in the cold war. and they to split against the soviet union. now it's russia and then they to has pledge to move search t 1000, sorry, 300000 troops. actually, it to nature, to mobilize and, and to fight against russia in the event that have not been put in, decides to attack nato and to repair it at the nato summit in vilnius. thank you. and dw corresponding to connelly is following the reaction in the ukranian capital cheese. meanwhile, he tells us about how all of this is going down among the ukrainians. there is real disappointment in see if i think of the kind of consensus is that the west and

particularly germany the us. so basically once again, not have the confidence not have the courage to draw a line in the sense for the russians. that is the view seen from key of people here think that given ukraine, that kind of perspective would actually make things safer. that it would make it clear to us and that the west is committed to finding the long run. and there is no room for russia to expand its influence here. and you claim that this ambiguous in keeping things up and actually encourages russian aggression gifts. letting me put you in hope that he might still wait it out. and if and you, us, the ministration comes in the other crises in your district, attention that he will then be able to achieve more on the ground on the battlefield. here in ukraine, there is the present of a volume zalesky from other political figures here. some people to criticize the fact that he was quite so open in his criticism on, on social media that he was quite so emotional. they say that he didn't do enough in terms of reform inside the country that he gave countries who were looking for a reason to say no to ukraine, a substance. and they were able to now,

instead of the membership at some time, say okay, we can expect you to carry out some reforms and when the conditions and whatever those conditions are they haven't been said, then we'll let you in. so has the criticism inside the country, but the over arching kind of feeling is one of disappointment and of uh, yeah, a sense of history repeating itself that of to, to $28.00. that last big nature summit, when you crane was basically like me told not now that things are just happening will ever again us president joe biden, ukrainian president reload america lensky expected to meet today in vilnius. what are you currently ins expecting there? i think this is going to be about weapons and more weapons right now ukraine is in an offensive all across the south and east we have that is a decision by the white house to green light, the delivery of cluster munitions that is crucial because basically conventional munitions, all running very, very low in the u. s. and also in europe. so basically it was the question of cluster munitions or not. so i think there's going to be more of a push from zalinski for those of $165.00 digits. ukraine troops tell you,

time and time again, that they all basically unprotected. they don't have the support and that is costing you for in your lives. but i think there's also a real fear here that the white has increasingly scared of russia being date stabilized by its lack of success here on the battlefield. but actually, they're more concerned about submitting the pension and he's reading folding rather than about making sure that the ukraine succeeds and we games with searching settings. going to be pushing zalinski to remind the white house that you crane is the us. as a director, i live here and actually that is a priority rather than making sure that the boots and stays in place and kind of chaos in russia is avoided. so i think that is kind of the real hope and i don't know how much we're going to find out in public, but certainly there is a real big hope that this is going to be the crucial meeting of the summit. connolly and keith, thank you. and here are some of the world news headlines. japan has denounced the latest long range missile fired by north korea. japanese chief cabinet secretary hero caught too much sooner,

said that p on gangs repeated launching a ballistic missiles as a threat to japan safety. on wednesday, north korea conducted a missile test with it's the longest of our flight time. russia has blocked the efforts by the un security council to extend to monetary and aid to serious revel health northwestern areas. the resolution would have secured much needed deliveries for another 9 months to a region ravaged by a massive earthquake in february. a russian counter proposal to extend a for 6 months also failed, and was only backed by china. or for zoe and authorities have rescued for migrants found hiding on the rudder of a ship from nigeria. the still ways were discovered after 13 days at sea. police say that they are healthy, the spike hiding in a section of the ship. that is often under water a hand written will found on the couch of the late secret aretha franklin has been

more legitimate by a us during the singer left no formal well after she died in 2018, sparking a long legal battle between her 4 sons. on tuesday, tens of thousands of israelis demonstrated and protest after parliament gave initial approval to a bill to reduce the power of the countries courts. prime minister benjamin netanyahu, whose right wing coalition is behind the push to reign in the judicial system, which critics call an attack on the countries balance of power. an angry crowd greets arrival at israel. it's been going on at ports, protest of luck to the streets in response to law. that was the scrap the supreme court's rights to strike down government decisions they need to know if it's to stymie the code,

is an attack on that basic rights. we're fighting for misery, democracy for our independent traditional system. and in israel we only have one check over, you know, when the checks and balances when they had one check over our dish. or there are government, which is a traditional system in our supreme court. and what they're doing right now is trying to take it away exactly liking hungary and poland, and the won't allow it to happen. we don't want to be at the dictatorship protests to intel of east and other parts of the country. the police responded with force arresting. dozens of people hang rentavision on the streets were reflected in parliament on monday when prime minister benjamin netanyahu, whose right wing coalition costs the bill. and the 1st hearing will come up. you can even after the amendment to the court independence and civil rights and israel, it will not be harmed in any way. and that's why the new bill is not the end of

democracy, but a strengthening of democracy. and there's certainly no reason to disrupt the lives of millions of citizens, bishop call you him, should be known as with him. the opposition disagrees and is about to keep fighting . so like things now this bill will not happen if it passes the 1st reading, it will fall on the 2nd and 3rd readings. if it passes the 2nd and 3rd readings, it will fall on the high court. if it doesn't fall on the high court is government of yours will fall by the voters because they look at you and say, these people are not only not working for us. they're eliminating is rarely unity because of petty motivations of crazy corrupted and destructive people. there must be the vote has intensified protests that have been ongoing since the government 1st tables are traditional reform in january. now, unwilling to back down the protests a set to continue the northern hemisphere. summer has brought extreme weather to

many countries in the united states has not been exempt. president joe biden has declared a state of emergency some of the ne regency, their worst flooding in nearly a century. this is not the legs are not covered by 2 months, right. and in just 2 days, several communities like this, including the state capital on probably a moon by the relentless deluge. more than 30 state varied so close as the war to spread to this railroad even had the ground swept away from underneath it. a video shot by vermont state police shows flood waters pulling over time of the queen. she river and other walked away. the connecticut river slower and to full meat is above. it's usually a level for up levels. now as a pos, back to of how can i read in 2011 marine had about 12 hour duration of rain.