the, the, this is the, the news live from berlin. germany is defense minister down plays a damaging lake forest. the story explains human error for the interest steps that put the secret and military conversations about german weapons for ukraine into russian. have also coming up, natal conducts its biggest military exercise in europe since the cold war. all 31 allies as well as nato partner, sweden are participating the sarah kelly. welcome to the program. days after the damaging admission that

a conversation between high level german military personnel was intercepted by russia, germany's defense minister says the blame for the incident lies with simple human error. 4 days after the revolution, 1st made headlines, forrest the story as has stepped before the cameras to explain in detail exactly what went wrong. he says that an officer who was visiting single pore dialed in to join the discussion about the use of tourist missiles and ukraine without taking the necessary security measures which loved type put, calling the leak, a hybrid this information attacked. the story is expanded on brushes, attempts to influence the narrative in germany was lumped type. russia is constantly trying to drive a wedge between us, between the domestic political forces in germany, between the parties, between those for a, for or against community, for more or less support for ukraine. it's all the perfidious in the to tennis king

. he and we must not fold for it to the least often lime game. see that he is chief political editor and make a look of her husband following the story. she told us more about the leak and its security implications. well, the details of the link that we heard about today and so that there was one member of the cool who was at the time in a single pull at a conference and the drum and defense. and the sub stories said this to him and member of the military. a piece of used a, an insecure line. and there's a belief here in berlin that the russian intelligence was signing off communication, free flow, and communication during that particular conference. knowing that there are lots of military personnel in town. so the durham inside seems to believe that this was pretty much a lucky find on the russian side. having said that, and the german going to said the military is now also reassessing. it's the

security of its own lines, but does stress that there was no hacking into any system and the, or into any server at the same time, everything is now being reassessed. for now, the full people involved are under investigation, but we also heard from boys the story is the german defense minister saying that he was unwilling to sacrifice any of his top offices for watching cold puritans game. so that we are in this game of communication in what is described as a hybrid wall here in germany. but you know, it still doesn't put germany's military in a very good light. what has been the reaction are absolutely, and it also comes at the time of very heated debates here in germany over whether or not the weapon that was being discussed, the towers and missile system is supposed to be sent to ukraine or not the

government, hans, that is completely against that. he says that this could be read by the russian side as the german involvement in this conflict. and this is soon to really been confirmed now by moscow that it would be seen that a particular way, despite the fact that the french and the brits are deploying or have already sent similar a weapon systems. so, and this was quite something that the opposition picked up on here on the damages, the credibility of the german tom slit in a very heated debate over this weapon which reading runs even within his own party and his own governing coalition. so moscow clearly minus to hit a pressure point, both in relation to ukraine was desperately needs more weapons in gem and domestic politics. where the germans, hans, that is already on the defensive to political editor and we have the customer. thank you. so nato is staging its biggest military

exercise since the cold war operation. steadfast defender involves drills, encompassing a variety of scenarios and goes on until may some 90000 soldiers from all 31. nato allies and sweden are participating among them. is poland. troops are testing their ability to move military equipment in difficult conditions on the stool. a river or brussels bureau chief alexandra phenomena has this report from getting yes. moving nato forces towards an imaginary frontline, 300 meters across the vista learn river. this exercise commanders here tell us it's meant to test nato, a strategic planning and logistics. river crossings. operations like the one we are witnessing here are only undertaken is absolutely necessary. and that is because there are so difficult to plan and execute. you have to consider many different

sectors, like the characteristics of the terrain and river conference, and of course in case of a real war, all of these challenges would be negative 5 by enemy fire. so they wants to be ready in case bridges are destroyed and they needs to get across the river. and important exercise, especially for countries such as poland and the baltic states which are crossed by numerous rivers, british and german come. but engineers are among those in charge of transporting federal tanks and other equipment across the dish to the river. they said it took them just a few minutes to put together a fairly like this one. but every day has its own challenges. the river is quite high at the moment, is quite hungry a few weeks ago. the areas where we don't show where be phoned up with the troops across. how does that sound and equal to so by see the part of the shipping outstanding? the bank preparation to ground works as simple as an ending date to further what to maintain that with some 20000 soul just from 9 nato countries participating. this

exercise led by poland is also a demonstration that the alliance is ready to deploy its pure had forces wherever there are needed. i would argue it's the right exercise at the right time, because it sends a unified message, unified message to potential enemies like russia. as far as potential enemies lie, dresser, you know, nato is preparing it. so if it gets tooth rates, it's russia and its terrorist threats. but i would argue that this message is also going to own audiences. we need to prepare ourselves. we need to be better. and to spend more on drills like this one and on defense in general, need to officers say, but apart from these more general concerns, they are happy which day one of the training and i asked brussels bureau chief alexandra phenomena who filed that report if the drills would provoke russia?

well, that is a question that i put to need to a general's here in guinea. it's in poland. and all of them told me that it's not about attacking of provoking russia. that their goal is to improve nato's defense and the parents. portia. but they also told me that the decision to hold those exercises on such a big scale was mad because it was made because of rush us war on ukraine. because not, and they to understand that they need to be ready, shoot russia, attack nato's territory. and we know that according to some intelligence agencies in europe, in 3 to 5 years, russia could try to attack to need to territory. so that is why need to come and there's no telling us it's important to train and it's important to exercise, to work together to be ready for whatever may come. and that was alexandra

phenomena speaking me sweet earlier. here's a look at some other stories making headlines. the international criminal court has issued arrest warrants for 2 russians, manders over alleged more crimes ukraine. the hague, fast faced court says that it has reasonable grounds to believe that russian forces carried out strikes on civilian infrastructure. moscow denies the allegations saying that it's attacks are intended to reduce, keeps ability to fight 15 us states banning from the east to the west coast star calling primary elections today called super tuesday. it is the biggest day and the 2024 brace for the white house so far. it is being dominated by 2 candidates president joe biden, for the democrats and his predecessor, donald trump, for the republicans. us secretary of state and me blinking is calling on him off to accept an immediate cease fire with israel as mediators meeting pyro after meeting

with think atari prime minister in washington. he also urged israel to make maximum effort to get humanitarian aid into gaza, about their own. of the head of the u. s. posted in refugee agency on raw, has warranty a deliberate campaign to destroy it. following a funding fries by donors for lee plaza really alleged that is really government is trying to undermine the agency for political ends. his stress that the agency was vital for displace palestinians and gaza. meanwhile, conditions for people within the territory are only getting worse. with reports of children starving to death, panic and k o as men and gaza city run around in a frenzy to find food countries such as egypt, jordan fronts. and now the us have been dropping aid from above. but there are too many people in need. and there's not enough aid the

we have the willingness inability to bear it. but is there a father in the world who can see his children riding in hunger in front of him to remain silent? even if the price is risking his life. just like all these people who risk their lives in order to obtain what is not even enough for a crumb a flower, or aid or canned food. yesterday, some expired canned goods arrived, containing mold and fungus. we are not animals, as they described us over the weekend workers from the un. i'm the w h o rushed in to provide supplies to hospitals, medicines and fuel a running critically low. and this is costing children deadlines. unfortunately, yes, we have lost 2 babies here. they had pneumonia,

but they died because of the power cut. the power went off at 4 am, and at 8 am we were out of oxygen, the one that many others have died from hunger, according to the visiting team from the w. a true the there is no milk or anything . well, the situation is bad. indescribable. we're not able to get them anything. these deaths come as the bone being outside continues and bodies, philip floors, some with so young. they barely have to chose to live the sometimes we have a change of pace. now in a very different story. we're going to head to sydney, australia, where women of the bondai beach sir fe, there's live saving club, are training the next generation of rescuers. they also raced rescue boats to hone their skills and had of international women's day on march. 8th, the volunteers of the pink petrol are raising awareness about how women contribute

to safety on the water. it's a sunday morning on sydney's iconic bondai beach that are in live savers. next he cried, and christy smith, sprint through the surf and leap into their inflatable rescue boat, or i r b as quick as they can, that they were passing on their experience to the next generation of women. rescuers. in the case of christie and her daughter shar, quite literally it's a really lovely experience. so what she keeps, what she and mental you'll keep, and then i'd never foster's doing it. she just wanted to do it. but she said to me one day, oh and i want to do it and i love it. and she recently told me that the feeling apply is like no other. i mean it means everything really establish your relationship with her. and i feel really women were excluded

from australia ser, for us, you force until 1980. now they make up almost half of the volunteers. after 12 years on patrol nixie cried says the only difference between her and her male colleagues is that she can cut corners when it comes to her craft. we have to work a lot more on outtake may be something that the women have to get that take me in the lead up to women's day, the bondai beach crew ran its annual pink patrol to highlight their brave work on the choppy waters and to inspire more women to follow in their sandy foot steps you're up to date now on data you news. i'm sarah kelly and berlin. thank you so much for watching up next. it is close up reporting on the millions of women who have become victims of deep fig, porn images. stay with us because the

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