the, the, you're watching the to be, your name is coming to live from berlin. the kremlin rams up the rhetoric warning that russia ends. nato are now in direct confrontation over you crate. that statement comes as nato marks. it's a 75th anniversary. leaders calling for more assistance for cuba, saying it is an investment in nato's phone security. also coming up on our show today, rescue brew search for those. it's still messing and tie one officials, a people are still trapped and remote regions for the island. vegas to earth wake in a quarter of a century. outraged grows over as well as deadly attack on aid workers and gaza. the n g o world central kitchen has demands on independence investigation and so

the strikes that killed 7 of its staff. first, the groups found her says they were deliberately targeted and brazil and columbia make major progress in the fight against comfortable force destruction. researchers say despite their games elsewhere, things are not looking so positive, the quite richardson welcome. we begin to show with a fresh criticism from the kremlin moscow says relations between russia and nato have reached the level of quote, direct confrontation due to the alliances and large mentioned recent years. and it's military support for ukraine. and the comments come on the day, the north atlantic treaty alliance celebrates it's a 75th anniversary in brussels. nato allies have vowed to keep supporting ukraine's fight against russia's invasion. the alliance is weighing

a plan to provide long term support for ukraine. it's asked that is currently shouldered by individuals member states. it may, so it's 75, but things zones getting any easier with age. despite the finds that the alliance is facing huge challenges from the threat posed by rush or a new crane and beyond to a potential of 2nd, donald trump presidency in the united states. from the nato critic, the alliances hedge stress, the need for united stand europe needs america for its security. at the same time, north america also needs europe to head off the trump threat. stokes and bags to dress may turn members could separate 150 on your right funds to provide a big slice of ministry, a to ukraine, over the next 5 years. you will say, says nato should have a more direct role in delivering that side. a change from the current set up where

the us and loan is largely responsible. h q a and e s. foreign minister told d w that should happen whoever the next us president is because people are saying, you know, that we need to, uh, take this, this step, bought this measure because of the election. i don't think that it's it's, it's right because it, if i read in a position, so i think it's best to have a different concept in mind. you know, we do what's right. we do what is needed for nato security. we do what's needed for ukraine, security and ukraine. russia has intensified. it's me, saw a tax on ukraine in recent weeks with the war now into its 3rd year, ukraine's foreign minister says what the country really needs is more air defense systems from the west. i don't want to spoil the party, but of course my message is a birthday party, but my main main main message today will be competitive because saving you currently live savings for an economy saving pregnancy just depends on

the availability of pets, fees, and other air defense system seems ukraine and we're talking about petra's because it's still in the system that can intercept ballistic missiles. western allies have been hesitant on this point, but the ukraine that will be cause for the biggest celebration of all. let's bring in the w, terry sholtes and brussels from war terry. this to day meeting ended about an hour ago with a final wrap up by secretary general oldenburg, looking back at the 75 years of a lion's history. but also ahead of the challenges that it is facing. now, how would you describe his mood? it's the mood of the secretary general and the foreign ministers who were at this meeting was generally somber. of course, they're proud that nato has existed for 75 years and many of the countries that joined the alliance over the last 30 years or so expressed how proud they were to be part of it. how much more secure they felt being inside the alliance. something they dreamed of while they were trapped us some describe this behind the iron

curtain during the cold war. but at the same time, when you have the ukrainian foreign minister arriving and saying, hey, i don't want to spoil the party, but my people are being killed. there really wasn't much of a festive mood around here at all. people took the ukrainian foreign ministers needs very seriously and, and even the estonian foreign minister continued to repeat that ukraine should be admitted to nato. now, indeed, i understand you. crane dominated much of the discussion there. did secretary generals, oldenburg have any announcements of new assistance, as well as was mentioned in that piece ahead of me. there is this proposal on the table to create a 100000000000 euro fund over the next 5 years. that would also coordinate the weapons deliveries to ukraine. now that's seen as something new seen as nato stepping up and providing reassurance to ukraine, given that it's not going to get an offer for a membership at the upcoming washington summit. at the same time, secretary journal stilton berg came out with some specific new contributions.

600000000 euros from germany for an initiative led by the checks to get more munition. he said the u. k would give 10000 more drones. france giving more missiles and, and, uh, armored vehicles and finland came up with a new offer of a 188000000 euro. so yes, there were these piece meal offers announced at this meeting, but overall the mood was really that they wanted to provide lasting reassurance for ukraine and, you know, support that goes beyond this meeting. and of course, we have to say, it's not just russia that's making european nato allies nervous. is it? it's also the potential, the former us president donald trump, will come back to the white house. how much was that? the topic of discussion here a this is not something that specifically on the agenda, but at the same time you can hear the concern about this sort of interspersed in every speech and every conversation. secretary general stilton berg frequently reminds how many more allies are now spending 2 percent of their g d. p on their

own defense, something that uh, president trump, in his 1st former president, trump is uh, administration hammered home to allies constantly. also this new 100000000000 euro proposal for ukraine would be showing that the european allies can step up and aren't completely dependent on the united states for support either for ukraine or for themselves. so well, nobody really wants to talk about another trump presidency like as a forgone conclusion. you can hear them definitely making the argument ahead of time, just in case that's what happens in november, which would be a really big problem for nato. terry, thank you about his date of these, terry shows for us and brussels while ukrainian authorities say about 30 percent of the country is contaminated by russian lands, mines, unexplored ordinance, and other explosives up to 174000 square kilometers of land is bought to be contaminated, posing a threat to civilian life and also making it off limits for farming and other use.

according to a survey by u. n. o shop published last year, minds have been detected and a less than a few cranes $27.00 o blasts. among the most contaminated regions are mac elias, her son, jeanette, and harkey. of human rights watch points out that ukrainian forces have also to play the land lines against russian forces. the area in need of checking in clearing is larger than the size of greece. dw is abraham travelled at 2 booty and northern ukraine to meet some of those who are taking on this dangerous job a year ago. victoria was training to be a pastry shop. now the 20 year old is helping clear ukrainian soil from unexploded russian mines is doing so in the northern ukrainian village previously occupied by russia. this work is crucial for life to come back here. and

that was a to, but my brother is currently serving in the army for 2 and a half years already. my father was also go to the army, but because of course, he passed the commission but was not drafted. i also wanted to do my part. so i came to work here, of course, with you a little bit, they have a younger brother, and i would like him to walk on clean land and of course give them a boot. and so would my future children do presumed him. i would need you to the course. victoria says, when she 1st swapped her pastry apron for a metal detector, her mother panic insisting the job was too dangerous, not appropriate for women. but women are taking on new rules all through ukraine replacement, who are at the front line, behavioral trust, and n g o. that works to clear landmines and explosive devices is seeing more women wanting to do the job. doing my work. i need a lot of our women and to actually they inspire me because,

and many of them like the rims out of zone or from fort because they do say previously absolutely different to work. so live, for example, the phone was working, making money to so was, was built to the anesthesiologist, someone was working as a teacher bands. and now they decided that at the moment maybe we need to fleeing for the last was not far from ki, of you yet who used to work in an office trains knew the miners when you put the to i'm just delighted when they come the next day and this is and can tell them what i told them yesterday, including the record. that's why i like being an instructor. but we have many women whose husbands are at war and these women are not standing by and crying and not waiting for them or rather, they also take the position that the more we work on this, the sooner we will finish it all with you,

with the physical some estimates suggest it could take hundreds of years to clear all of you, clean of landlines. these women are making start. we can bring you up to speed. now with some other world news headlines, finland has extended its border closure with russia in definitely due to what helsinki calls a high risk of organized migration, orchestrated by moscow relations between the neighbors have soured over the war and ukraine. and finland joining nato last year. south african police have arrested as former parliament speaker as part of a corruption investigation. let's you give them a piece so not cool stuff to down a speaker on wednesday. she's accused of taking several large bribes from a former military contractor while she was defense minister charges that she denies armed resistance groups and me and mark claimed to have caused casualties in a drone attack on a military base in the capital. they feed off the capitals, the seats of power for the military homes that over through the democratic

government in 2021. the who entered it says it's shot down 7 drones, claiming no damage or casualties were caused a taiwanese rest yours. or if we're working to reach scores of people trapped after wednesday's earthquake as a massive clean up operation begins, at least 10 people were killed and over a 1000 injured in the magnitude 7.4 quake. it was the islands worst earthquake and a quarter of a century. c, w correspondent, james cheater travel to the worst hit city while. yeah and ty, ones east, the inside one's mouse and mister roco national park, a dramatic bank draw up for a dramatic rescue. this is the moment 6 corey, well, cuz what i looked at safety from the area just north of quantity and the city coast is to the sense of the most powerful us quite to strike taiwan in 25. yet the rugged landscape is where hundreds of people remain trapped, mostly by land slides which are built roads and tunnels. many remain missing nearly

48 hours since the quick strong. in holly and off the shelves continue to whipple through the city. as clear operations go down the way the inside of this 15 story residential tab block because among the was tense when we arrived, officials were squeezing residence in fluid by fluid to assess the damage to the risky worker lunchroom. being took us inside to the foundations of this building remain largely intact for the details where you have come crashing down over here we have running water from a bus more to pipe. and that's why in this building and many buildings across the hall in till thursday is the saying, it's still too dangerous to residence, to retire. in the immediate aftermath, our aim is to save as many people as possible. but after that, we're also trying to do as much as we can to help people recover whether that's rebuilding or coming the emotional or physical impact on one of the outside

residents describe their response of to seeing their homes for the 1st time. since the trend of those, we don't see it as though when we went into our house, almost everything was on the floor. and so going up, there was a motion to the top of downtown. as most people are dealing with it quite well. we can't control as quick software. oh, okay, cool. so many try. one has at least controlled the extensive destruction of quick proofing regulations mean seems like the same quantity in the exception notes the room to of course london, james tater file. that report, he told us more about how people are coping in the quakes aftermath in the city of wiley and which was close to the epicenter. then what's happening behind us here is these people residents of this building and the fiber gate is taking them up to the homes floor by floor so that they can collect personal belongings, but they're only allowed to collect important belongings. increase the they're not allowed to stay in the building for too long because that all concerns about the

structural integrity of it. and as i mentioned, those best conditions inside the building remain, it pretty treacherous. and that's also why authorities are saying that people call and return it to this building so far as so many of the people that you see behind us here will be staying in the back to ration shelters or at friends homes. and so that's really the story that's emerging from this size quake in taiwan because coming into the city this morning, you really notice the, the impacts of this creek is definitely evidence. you can see the destruction is clear here. but what, what's crucial is that the destruction isn't close. so i'm not really a testament, i think, to the stringent measures that taiwan is present in terms of us quite proofing building over the past couple of decades. and that's why we seen this big difference, this for you to a number of people that have been killed by the south quake versus the number of people that have been injured, which has now passed because he does, he's correspondent james che, to report in from holly and ty, one there, meanwhile,

we're gonna turn to some other stories. pressure on israel continues to grow over. it's definitely a task on an 8th convoy in gaza. the leaders of poland and australia criticized as well as conduct after citizens of their countries were among those killed in the attack. i mean, it looked like the values of it was what we expect a full explanation and immediate and clarification of all the circumstances of this tragedy. it's kind of on compensation for the relatives of the victims of this attack would also be very important to me. i'll let this both of these others i will uh, we need to have a can ability for how it's ok and what isn't good enough. is the stipend, so that they might a, including that this is just a product of was the founder of world central kitchen, has accused israel of systematically targeting his workers. when it carried off, the strikes is rarely prime minister benjamin netanyahu said the workers were

killed, unintentionally, as, as well continues operations following the october 7th, the terrorist attacks by him us. but the latest incident has prompted world central kitchen and some other 8 organizations to suspend their operations in gaza, where palestinians are desperate for food and other necessities for you when suspended, it's night time humanitarian. a convoys for 48 hours that as rights group say, garza is heading toward famine. the aid workers bodies have since been transported to egypt before being repatriated. transporting the bodies of aid workers. they were killed and then as really air strikes well overseeing the delivery food aid in gaza. the us base and g o released the names and photos of palestinian australian, british polish, and us canadian staff killed in the attack. the remains of 6 were taken out of gaza to egypt to beaver patriot or to their home countries. the founder of the

charity world central kitchen set. the convoy was targeted systematically, one car after the other, who they were targeting hands, you know, their confidence on eric months old idea. then knowing that was our team's moving on that route. $77.00 people that they are 7 on top of a lease. so what i know there 192 money dining workers that they've been to over the last 6 months. israel's government said it regrets the incident and promised to insure it would not happen again. but its conduct and the war has come under mounting criticism. not just abroad, but also at home. tens of thousands have taken to the streets in antique government protest, any guns, a member of israel's 3 man, more cabinet and prime minister benjamin netanyahu,

whose main rival is now calling for new elections to be held later this year. i believe that the, these really society needs to renew its contract because it's leadership and i think the only way to do it and still maintaining the national f. 14 fighting come us and there was group and other secure with the challenges is by having an agreed election date that we have to discuss when and if the early election proposed would have to be backed by the majority of israel's parliament where families of hostages held in gaza, continued to protest, maybe to some other news now, and experts say brazil and columbia experienced a remarkable decrease in primary forest bloss in 20222023 deforestation, and brazil dropped by a 3rd and by almost half in columbia. according to the new report from the non profit world resources institute, but tropical forest are still being destroyed with the equivalent of around 10

football fields lost every minute in 2023 tree. last is still a huge problem. in the amazon rain, forest or region considered a key asset in the fight against climate change. in brazil, home to most of the forest people in the city of the line are feeling the effects of weather extremes, driven by a heating climate for the people as billing in northern brazil life revolves around the river tide. water levels often rise as heavy rain becomes more and more common over the years of abuse or lima has watched the waves a road, the coast and change day to day routines of view. this besides that most people's lives followed the timing of the river. yes. and if i take the children to school earlier, go grocery shopping before the tide rises, small changes to weather patterns like these are becoming more prevalent as the world burns fossil fuels and heats up the atmosphere. regions in and around the amazon are especially affected as well. no means of availability is,

but the risk drought flooding and food insecurity is increasing k, they look at the as goes things like what are you that you mean that it but right next to belief as one of the world's greatest weapons and the fight against climate change the amazon marine for us. not only does it absorb massive amounts of carbon dioxide, but it also plays a vital role in regulating the water cycle. because it's trees recycle the rain that falls there and return it into the air. under former far right, president show you both, sonata deforestation, sword. but now brazil is losing as many trees as it was. according to university of maryland data tree loss was found by 36 percent in 2023 compared with the year before. since taking office current president leasing now to let us uva has cracked on them. deforestation, especially in the amazon, has government bolstered law enforcement monitoring the for us and it recognizes more indigenous territories that safeguard nature. but there is still

a potential to do much more, for example, to scale up sustainable economies for native plants like the same as i say, he buries the experts. some studies shows that ending deforestation material they scan far as not. we not only avoid tied to climate issues, but also create new jobs, improves localized springs for security. next year, the u. n. a will hold its climate change conference and building presidents subject to lima, says the meeting as a call to action. so maybe i key additional thing about i feel my children will never get to know this place. always single guy to be a roast, worse than of us on the we have to participate in this person. so then this process, the hope is the world leader is called only focus on the amazon rain forest, but that they will also pay attention to the plate of the communities around it. let's get more from dw environments of beatrice, christopher ro, here with me now in the studio. thanks much for taking the time. we've seen there.

brazil has made some real strides toward protecting it's for us last year. but what is the situation in the rest of the world? the way that experts are describing it is that it's almost like 2 steps forward and 2 steps backward. so almost like a standstill. and that's because we saw a huge success stories like brazil and columbia, which really reduce the amount of trees a loss from 2023 to 20, from 2020 to 2023. you know, we heard the numbers of reduction of 36 percent for brazil, 49 percent for colombia. this is huge, and it was because there was a change in political leadership. but these winds were almost wiped up by the fact that then a lot more for us was lost in nicaragua, in laws in bolivia. and that's because more people were clearing, went for agriculture, for people were setting fires, and the conditions were more prone for those fires to spread because it was especially pot and especially dry last year. and there will still be people watching from home who, who aren't sure why it is so important to protect for us could you paint

a picture for us of why it is necessary to conserve or for us it can serving tropical forest is one of the most cost effective ways that we can combat climate change when it comes to our land use. and that's because triple trees absorb massive amounts of carbon dioxide if they're standing. because if we cleared them, they actually turn into a carbon source. and beyond that, for us house, the most biodiversity of any ecosystem on earth. so protecting the plants spacious, and they're the animal species. and there is absolutely vital to keep all of these, you know, organisms that our inventory connects to, to keep them in balance. and to keep the planet habitable. now world leaders are aware of those, which is why hundreds of them have a pledge to hold for us last by, by 2030. the problem is we have very little time and we still have such a long ways to go. as numbers you mentioned from brazil and colombia are, are really striking and quite impressive. what do you think the, as the world can learn from brazil in columbia? and how to reduce deforestation. what these example show is the political will,

is absolutely necessary to have a huge success of life, personal in columbia. so in both cases we see, oh, there was a change in government and the government put environment on the agenda or put for us conservation on the agenda. and of course this is like specific to every context in brazil. one of the measures we saw was that more indigenous territories are but being recognized and that kind of double as conservation areas in columbia. and the other hand, it's actually arms groups that live in the forest, the control those areas and therefore also protect the trees. and so what the new government is doing is that now that it's kind of having peace negotiations with some of these are groups that might actually be leaving the forest as they negotiate these terms. they're really putting forrest conservation at the very top . so what this shows is that, okay, we of course got to always adapt to what's going on in each country, but the government needs to be leading the way needs to be showing us where to go. because otherwise civil society and also the private sector won't really have

a chance of you know, to do it without the government's health. the address. thank you so much for that. that is beatrice crystal from dw environment. and just before we go, let's get a reminder of our top stories at this hour. nato is marketing is 75th anniversary with a ceremony in brussels. representatives from ukraine are in attendance, as nato discussed as a proposed at long term age fund for kids of the kremlin. meanwhile, says that russia engineers who are now in open confrontation and rescue crews, are racing to reach people stranded in remote areas of tie. one after wednesday's major earthquakes, at least 10 people were killed and over a 1000 injured in the magnitude 7.4 point. and that is your news update. and off to me for now say to you to, for conflicts with attend sebastian coming up next. or if you want more news and analysis, there's a website, www dot com or on social media to ask you news for me in the whole team here. thank

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