the, the business needs to be news live from the ukraine gets more backing from greece. president zaleski says, athens is now offering training for f. 16 pipe fights of pilots. this photos pledges from denmark and book and the netherlands to deliver thousands of more planes on the program. us president joe biden views the aftermath of demi while supplies on hawaii and, and says criticism that his government was too slow to respond to the

. i'm telling me a lot about welcome to the program. greece has vowed to keep up. it's a military support for ukraine and help with post war reconstruction. the pledge came as ukraine's president of denver zaleski held talks in athens with greek prime minister, who react goes with the attack is, as well as bulk of nita's and top e officials, presidents and lensky thing to denmark and benevolence for green to supply cube with f 165 digits and grease for offering to train ukrainian pilots to fly them. a warm reception for ukraine's the load him use the lensky in copenhagen. you address the crowds after denmark and the netherlands pledge to supply f. 16 fighter jets to ukraine. something that key of hopes will tip the balance in the war is once we, when we are supporting your brain

together, we prove that is a way that's deep freedom matters your matters. ukraine wants be a 16 to update its aging soviet era. air force, the f. 16 entered service, and then 19, eighties, thousands have been built. it remains the backbone of many nato and allied air forces around the world. the 1st few aircraft should reach ukraine by the end of this year. more will follow in 2025. rush as ambassador to denmark has warned that the donation of 19 f. 16 aircraft to ukraine, will only lead to an escalation of the conflict. but it will be a while before you cranes, new jets will make an impact on the battlefield. the airframes being supplied are

likely to be quite old and will need extensive maintenance to remain in the air. ukraine will also need to train its pilots and mechanics of how effective the f 16 will actually be in the end, will depend on the weapon supplied with the jets. so why did it take so long for ukraine's allies to agreed to provide these planes w corresponding to nato experts? terry schultz explains it's true and remember that president zelinski was told he would never get these fighter jets just like he was told he wouldn't be getting leopard tanks. and the zalinski effect has worked once again, and it turns out he will be getting some f sixteens, even if they're a bit old and need some refurbishing. so there are several reasons why it took so long. one of them is, of course, political reluctance. so you know that the countries are still worried about, about how it appears to be supplying such high calibre weapons to ukraine in,

in addition, the netherlands and denmark had to ask the united states for permission to re export f sixteens because the us makes them and that just came in the last couple of days, but there are also logistical reasons and, and some of those are that there, they weren't pilots who are yet trained to fly them. and so that training is now underway for the last couple of months. they need to have the facilities available in ukraine to a to how's the 16th they need to be able to repair them. and so there are several reasons why, but of course, in creating would have liked to get these fighters deaths yesterday, so they'll be waiting anxiously for them. now. thailand's divisive form i need to attack, since you know, watch has returned to the country after years of self imposed exile to face criminal charges. the ex prime minister was met at the airport in band called by cheering crowds of supporters before being taken into custody vaccine. was convicted and up, send you in several criminal cases that he said, well, politically motivated, it could face jail time if he does not receive

a royal pod. and let's take a look at some of the stories making headlines as the head of rushes, wagner's mercenary group. you have guinea per goshen has published as fast recruitment video since is on rebellion in june. regarding suggested he wasn't africa claiming he was busy making quote, russia even great to on all continents. his whereabouts are unknown. if not all of them. donald trump says he plans to turn himself into authorities in atlanta, georgia on thursday to face charges, connected with his indictment bond has been set at $200000.00. the former us president stands accused of illegally scheming to overturn his 2020 election. last . trump says the case is politically motivated, tom is fascist. in west african regional block echo us has rejected a proposal. why nation need as military junta to restore democracy within 3 years,

the hunter made the proposal in the meeting with that goal was at the weekend. the block has threatened military intervention unless the coup anita is released, new jazz president and returned the country to democracy. us president joe biden has visited the hawaiian island of molly to see 1st hand the devastation left by recent wildfires. more than a 110 people unknown to have died in the flames, with that death told is expected to rise. more than 800 others still unaccounted for. is the deadliest wildfire in the us and more than a century the. the long hugs and all buds is the president and 1st lady touched down and married they were there to offer support to the survivors, and to pay respects to those who lost their lives in the wilds highest. the devastated to the island the 1st couple were given a closer look what's left to the historic town of la, hey, you know, which was

a little bit templates evaluated in the wind whipped inside of hawaii state govern adjusted queen sized search teams have now covered most of the area looking for the more than $800.00 people who are still missing. but the rest of the search could take weeks. president biden's administration has been criticized by some of the survivors and republicans who say the responses, the ineffectual and insufficient standing next to one of the most famous landmarks. the 150 year old banyan tree. the president used it as a metaphor for the islanders resilience and revival to my left is the bed and 3 beloved by this community for over a 150 years. here the former capital of the kingdom, hawaii, that it stood for generations as a sacred spot of exceptional significance today is burned. but it's still

standing tre, survive for a reason. i believe it's a powerful, a very powerful symbol. what we can and will do to get through this crisis for this, for as long as it takes, we're going to be with you the whole country be with you. the hate in the general, the end of the wild fires may have now subsided, and the focus turned to the task of rebuilding so that the people have now we will need much more than reassurance and will muds to the cover from the saving blaze that has ravaged the island they call home this country maia, is it how is it molly? following the story and asked what jo biden's visit means for the people there? yes. here among the people there hasn't be much talk about them by this breeze a visit, but by the authorities. uh, it is deemed important and so that he can directly assess the impact of the best

ation. right behind me is the the hotline downtime. you can see yourself, nothing has been left remaining. the president flew with a, with a helicopter over the area. and then afterwards, he's going to meet up also with fabulous to bring reassurance of the federal government is going to be right behind him by then has also announced more federal funding to help the people here there over 1000 for 1st responders on the ground and 450 rescue teams with 40 docs and also the f. b. i was still assisting with the they didn't duplication of the victims. and imagining that announcement of, of the sort of supplies and the more responds to what's happened that follows criticism of violence, government that it was too slow to respond as he specifically spoken about this. i know he just issued in

a declaration. he said he hasn't been visiting molly the sooner because he didn't want to have her the efforts that they were doing to recover victims and remove deborah's. but uh he, the main criticism is coming from the mainland, especially also from the republican party because he did not interrupt his vocation to come here. but the, there he did issue the class, a major disaster declaration 2 days after 5. yes. and that's what the, sorry to see a 7, a press conference. they said the by didn't approve the media to help one day after they asked for that. right. and many people are still missing after those devastating fires. do you know what's being done to find them? yeah, well, the area behind me it's been search up to 85 percent. the number of victims, uh, reported. that's uh, that's all it is. is it still low at $100.00? 14, but the governor set this number is,

is expected to rise significantly and among the victims will probably be many children also. their continued their for is about the 15 percent remaining is going to be very difficult because they have to remove now a lot of the deborah's, which has taken time and there were no also a warrant that many people that are still unaccounted for may never be found and what about the oldest of life as we know these people who've lost lots of property and, and all of that looked at homes what's being done to, to help them. as well as thinking that there were about 16 people who were still in need of sheltering, but for the most part that's been shipped out of the shelters. and the, sorry to said by the end of today, everyone will have an offer to stay in the room. so you have housing, but that's only for 30 days. there's a sale, not, not the any further plans on long term accommodation. but the for now there is they

have already been that come with, they give you another hotel rooms and also they're applying now for federal health . they have been some complaints that they have direct. how, how do they get money is not enough from the federal government. so actually, and because they're, you know, their businesses were destroyed. we, we don't know what's, what's going to happen long term part, you know, be correspondent, the country more. thank you for bringing us up to speed. tropical storm hillary has back to the us state of california after inflicting have a further south in mexico. the storm triggered slash flooding and mud slides. after a leasing record breaking down portion of the storm is weakening and moving further north, where emergency crews are hoping a can bring some good cleaning up hillary's mess, broken roads, land slides,

and flooding. this is what the aftermath of the storm looks like. people across southern california has the gun with the recovery phase. as you know, sometimes damage can occur in the hours in days after a storm hits. so angelenos should continue to stay vigilant. the city family will continue working around the clock to respond and we will need your help. hillary was not the disaster. the meteorologist expected the storm to be but she still hit hard. during the west coast of north america, from mexico into southern california, hillary dropped more than half an average years worth of rain on some areas, causing flash flooding and damaging infrastructure. a state of emergency was

declared in parts of southern california. as the we can store, moves north towards the canadian coast wildfire stricken british columbia could get some much needed rain in the coming days. its like a sports and the football women's well covers arrived in spain to its new home. the spanish national side touched down in madrid, lead leading a parade through the capital and a late night party. spain defeated england, one mil to win the 1st women's woke up, even before leaving the airport. the team was greeted by hundreds of supporters who would wait at hours to welcome tompkins hope. you're watching dw news live from berlin. he is a reminder of at homestar ukraine's president. so jim is lensky is held, talks with you involved some meters in athens, different discussing the balkan regents future relations with the blog in life of

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