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of the best it would be the news live from berlin. ukraine gets more back in from greece present. the landscape says athens may help to train have 16 fights of pilots as follows. pledges from denmark on the netherlands to deliver dozens of war planes, pulse on the program. us president joe biden views the aftermath of daphne wildfires in hawaii and his criticism that his government was too slow to respond to the
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tenant. told me logical welcome to the program. greece has evolved to keep up its military support for ukraine and help with post war reconstruction. pledge came as ukraine's president. both the mirrors, the landscape held talks in athens with the prime minister can we have caused me to attack is, as well as balkan leaders and talk each officials. president zaleski, thanks. den knock and the netherlands were agreeing to supply cave with at 165 digits, and he suggested grease may help to train ukrainian pilots a warm reception for ukraine's the load him your zalinski in copenhagen. you address the crowds after denmark and the netherlands pledge to supply f. 16 fighter jets to ukraine. something that you have hopes will tip the balance in the war is once we, when we cover was simple thing
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together. we prove that is a way that deep freedom matters your matters. ukraine wants the 16 to update its aging soviet era. air force, the f. 16 entered service and the 1980s. 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 rushes and bassett or 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
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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. how effective the f 16 will actually be in the end, will depend on the weapons supplied with the jets. so why did it take so long for ukraine's allies to agree to provide these planes dw, corresponding to nato x. but terry schultz explains it is it's, it's true and remember that president zalinski 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 caliber weapons to ukraine. in
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addition to 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 uh, to house the 6th teams they need to be able to repair them. and so there are several reasons why. but of course, in creating would've liked to get these fighter jets yesterday. so it'd be waiting anxiously for them. now. thailand defies of former anita attack sanction or it's has returned to the country after 15 years of self imposed exile to face criminal charges. the ex prime minister was met at the airport in bangkok by the cheering crowd of supporters before being taken into custody vaccine was convicted and up, send you in several criminal cases. but he said, well, politically,
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most of agent you can face jill time. if he doesn't, if he does not receive a royal pod and taxes return from exile comes as a party link to him, proposed to form a government. let's take a look at some of the stories making headlines on the head of russia's vag, number mercenary, if any, pre collision has published his 1st recruitment video. since his armed rebellion in june goes in suggested he was in africa cleaning. he was busy making, quote, russia even greater on all confidence. his current whereabouts are unknown. yeah, pretty from the west. african regional block echo us has rejected a proposal by new jazz military junta to restore democracy within 3 years. the hunter made the proposal in a meeting with echo was at the weekend, the block has threatened military intervention unless the coordinators with these new guys president and return the country to democracy. the people of ecuador have
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voted in a referendum to stop oil drilling, and an important amazon was of the use. any national park is one of the most diverse bias for as an us and home to several indigenous groups. the state oil company will now be required to and it's operation in the region. donald trump says he plans to turn himself into authorities in atlanta, georgia on thursday to face charges connected with his indictment on has been set at $200000.00. the former us president stands accused of a legally scheming to overturn his 2020 election last time. trump says the case is politically motivated. marks is communist fashions. us president joe biden has visited the hawaiian island of molly to see 1st hand the devastation left by recent wildfire as well then a 110 people are known to have died in the flames. but that death toll is expected to rise with more than 800 others still unaccounted for. is the deadly as wildfire
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in the us in more than a century of the long hugs and all buds. as 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 demons state of the island. the 1st couple were given a closer look at what's left to the historic town of la, hey, you know, which was a little bit to be expedited in the wind. whipped in phone or hawaii state, govern adjust screen size 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 say the responses being ineffectual and insufficient. standing next to one of the heinous most famous landmarks,
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the 150 of old banyan tree, the president to use that as a method for, 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 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. as 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 that the people have. now we will need much more than reassurance and will much to recover from the saving blaze that
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has ravaged the island they call home these of these country maia is in molly. following this story, i 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 diverse station. 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, she's going to meet up also with fabulous, to bring reassurance. 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 docks. and also
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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 every moved every is. 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 bye didn't approve the media to help one day
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after they asked for that. right. and many people are still missing after those devastating fires. do we 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 have lost lots of property and, and all of that looked at homes what's being done to, to help them as well as taking it. there were about 16 people
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who were still in need of sheltering, but for the most part they've been shipped out of the shelters. and they're very do said by the end of today, everyone will have an offer to stay in a room to 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 be knock on wood. they gave you another hotel rooms and also they're applying now for federal health. there have been some complaints that they have direct how, how do they get money is not enough from the federal government. so actually in, 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 corresponding country more. thank you for being us up to speed. the us is urging saudi arabia to investigate allegations that saudi border guards have been
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involved in killing migrants and asylum seekers. human rights watch claims, saudi gods have killed hundreds of the opens. the alleged systematic mass killings that they gave many solve the border with gauze or even said have used explosives. saudi arabia has previously denied allegations of killings and abuse by the border guards every year, thousands of people, mostly from c o, p, a travel through human, to reach saudi arabia, some w. e from human rights watch, told us more about what's been happening at the saudi border for yeah, there's no, there's, there's money to come set up in the border and people are trying to cross into saudi arabia. we spoke to people who were involved in new parts of large groups, trends across the border, who experienced multi rounds being fired. then uh, we verified some of the wounds that they were. teachers wins that was sent to us with forensic adults as to to complete the these actual rooms. well, um,
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what are consistent with explosives, exclusive weapons? and we also heard people speak about their being shocked with something smaller is being shot with, with bullets or being asked indeed vice how to go to college, which will in they would like to be shot to. and then they would then shelton that live um, survive is our, our either take him back to the counts in yemen. or some of those have been taking him to detention center has been sent to you later. i of the sports down to football women's world cup has arrived in spain with new home, the spanish national side touch down in madrid, leading a parade through the capital. and the late night party, spain defeated england won mil to win the fast women's walcott even before leaving the airport. the team was greeted by hundreds of supporters with waited hours to welcome to tompkins home. the
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