the, the visits dw news line from berlin and us house of representatives passed as urgently needed aid for ukraine. for $61000000000.00 packages, inc, the providing fresh weaponry and munitions, the key of as it tries to stop, the russian forces from advancing on the front line. also coming up in the program . the us house also passes a bill that would require the parent company of the popular video app, tick tock, to solid state within a year or face a band in the united states. the

i'm here until berlin, thank you very much for joining us. we started in the united states were lawmakers have passed a crucial $61000000000.00 aid package for ukraine. the final result was 311 in favor of the 20112. so it's against, excuse me, there. the bill had been delayed by republicans for weeks due to cross party wrangling. washington has been ukraine's biggest backer in its war against russia, but congress has not yet improve major funding. since last year, democratic lawmakers in congress has been pushing for a new weapons package for you, praying for months. public and hard liners have been reluctant to provide funding to key if a house will be in order to have the report of stuff in simon's in washington, outlined the main points in this debate. the debate before passing the bill was america. you have to come to the table as what you want to be the leader of the free world, one and a fighter for democracy. at least that's what we heard a lot from republican representatives in the house as well as democrats. as you

mentioned 2 months, this was in the making, the winehouse had requested a bill, a 60000000000, a 8 package bill from congress in october last year. and it took until now to do this. and now in the debate before this actually passed a lot of, well, of patriotism and i'm a call for america to, to face the music, basically like if you want to be the leader. and if you want to be strong and enable others to be stronger, guess adversaries, then you need to show up. and that's why a lot of representative said they will be voting for this bill. and yeah, it has been done with the majority of what we've all the democrats voting for it. and with the most republicans, as you said, 112 against that still. and that is quite

a bit of pill to swallow for the leader of the republicans. majority of the speaker of the house, mike johnson, or as 8, has slow to a trickle ukrainians, have been forced to improvise, to keep the frontline fruit supplied. w conway takes a look at how they're coping in this exclusive report from a ukrainian military facility. this type of scrap was once an em 77 artillery gun. it's just a tiny part of the weapons graveyard that this ukrainian ministry facility. it's where west and military tech comes from the front lines to prove to west and don't is that it's being used as intended, but more importantly, to be salvaged only. so our american counterparts just can't keep their heads around it and when they see what we do, they don't have to words, let me know when they will. they wouldn't even think about sending this kind of stuff to scrap, let alone repairing it. easily. guns sent to us that you could still recognizes artillery pieces. so that's not always the case anymore. it's not like we have

a choice with western arms deliveries which used to trickle these ukraine. you know, many engineers have to improvise. they call it cannibalism, hands making one function, while tillery gun from what's left of many damaged ones. the engineers here tell us they know just to drop off and deliveries half way through 2023, even before the current funding delay back fence. initial western stockpiles were exhausted after year of will, new production. it's still a good job. work is here are essentially putting together puzzles of different parts every single day, some new, some salvage, and some can provide for when they come in, we've struck no injuries, but we managed to get them healthy again. you could think he was speaking to a doctor, but the fighting, the front lines is so intense. this man's patients are often back in the repair shop within weeks. posting lines don't have pressure is already taking advantage of ukraine's declining fire power to push forward a us

a detailed up any longer. many here in ukraine worried that the slow retreat of recent months could soon turn into a route. meanwhile, back in the united states, american lawmakers have also passed a bill which could lead to a ban on tick tock. the bi partisan legislation forces the popular social media platform to invest itself from its chinese parent company might dance or face a nation wide band. the bill because tick tock one year to sell it, stick to us faced entity. lawmakers and both parties have raise national security and data privacy concerns. supporters of tick tock, question the constitutionality of the bill. the popular video app has an estimated with a 170000000 users in the united states as well for more on the move to band tick tock. i'm now joined by d. w reporter. same dorman here in the studio. so ben, why exactly are you as lawmakers pushing for this band? well, it will comes down to china, essentially lawmakers,

an intelligence community, have a long raise concerns that the calls picked up because owned by this chinese company by don't, that opens up the possibility, the chinese authorities and get its hands on the huge amounts of use data it has and use that for surveillance, essentially where men, which we might not fear that as he said, has roughly half the american population use it many of them daily. so that's huge indications that the possible use of that data as also be concerns raised about the potential for the chinese authorities to many put pressure on take talk to manipulate his algorithm to kind of boost content the best they could support chinese interests or bruce misinformation to things kind of undermine american civil society. and that way as one little make is supporting the bill for that. he said that takes almost like a spine believing in americans phone, so it's all about these national security surveillance concerns. all right, and so have there been any reactions so far from tick tock or maybe the chinese government? well to talk is certainly not happy about these plans. it's not, it's long pushed back as any move to force it to divest as us business or didn't

use a band tick tock says these are kind of over blown hypothetical concerns being raised . it points out that now at least it's on, it's us use, the data is based on service in the us. so it says there isn't a risk of the chinese government getting his hands on. it picked up the american uses of also rectified, i'm really they see this as a real attack on that kind of constitutional rights to freedom of speech. that's an argument. it's been supported by the american civil liberties union of the civil rights groups. and they've tested that in court at the state level as well before. there's also been pushback from kind of supporters of the idea of an open internet . and they say that if the us does go ahead with this fine, unprecedented band of a whole social media network, it really what act is more, i mean ition, so repressive regimes around a well defined of the social media networks themselves. what is an interesting argument? i mean, russia in china, i've already been massive amounts of social media for when it comes to the us right

now. is there any more legal challenges that this band could would have to go through, or is that already done and dusted? well, up next would be like in the senate, and that's expected sometime next week. there's already been signs for most and that says that they would likely support the measure if it pauses present biden is already promised. he'll sign it when it reaches him. then that would be like the legal challenges from tech talk, but there's also a massive question mark over the whole idea of a sale anyway. and the chinese government would have to sign off on a sale. and the chinese government is being very clear for very long time that it views all these efforts as a massive attack on kind of chinese tech champion. so it wouldn't approve any sale in any circumstances. right, well it's going to be interesting to see how this actually breaks next week. that was dw reporter been dormant for us in the studios. thank you very much for your reporting. spend. here's a brief look at some other stories making headlines around the world. the us house of representatives has also overwhelmingly approve the bill granting billions in

military assistance to israel. the $26000000.00 aid package is expected to go before the senate on tuesday. about 9000000000 has been earmarked for him out of the hearing relief to civilians in conflicts owens including gaza. $2.88 and naser order. the palestinian red crescent says 14 people have been killed is really raised near the west. bank town of to car is real, says it killed a number of gunmen interested others. at least 4 is really soldiers for help in the action. relatives and friends of hostages still being held by him us after being abducted during the october. the 7th terror attacks have gathered, once again in tel aviv to call for the release of their loved ones. they also called for the resignation of prime minister benjamin netanyahu. and fresh elections in pockets dotted storms and flooding have killed at least 65 people. as i'm usually having downpours at the region state of emergency,

it has been declared in the biggest city crunchy. for infrastructure there has left people vulnerable your thoughts thrown into region, reverse pages swept or we might house or such as rated by heavy down bows to the point of collapse slots in the south western city of german tough, inundated homes and wiped out residents belongings from the side of buffalo, so we've been devastated battery landless down costs and you witness applied our homes, have crumbled, grieving on children, badly impacted flood water surrounded our house from the front and back on. so to natalie, escaped with the grace of god. now we faced the danger of more heavy ringing. what are you satisfied with in northern focused on the incidents that don't have devastated homes? removing the mix shift gums, they built in a futile effort to protect their homes. mainly hearing loss on behalf

of which one was here. so we took the children and escaped with them and the flood has damage the watts of our home and all the things have been washed out with water . i have no clothes to where we have now just a few kitchen items. all things have been washed away and lucy bought the unseasonably heavy deeds have in and dated, focused on it has raised fee of, of potentially booty once on season to come. it is also reminded of the 2022 flats, the get over $1700.00 people in cost, mass displacement focused on in good billions of dollars worth of damage. scientists link the flooding to climate change. people audit the heart of this climate try system for so disproportionately beard the environmental costs of global warming. the 10s of thousands of demonstrators have taken to the streets of springs, canary islands,

to demand changes to mass tours. and they're basically the current economic model harms local residents and the environment as well. the protestors want authorities to take steps to lessen the negative effects of so many tourist flocking to the popular holiday destination. the canaries have a limit. that's what many of these posters read thousands of local residents across the 7th, and that'd be islands, protest against my students. and i don't know, but i'm gonna get them. what we heard of this demonstration will be historically, we're convinced that it is going to find out that people are finally raising their voice and that almost they are not going to stay at home. residents say they are not against the tourists both say, after all tourism accounts for about 25 percent of the archipelago cdp, but they do want the numbers to be regulated. now still nearly 14000000 tourists visited the canary islands. that's more than 6 times its own population. north

ticket, i was curious to know that we don't want tourists. we want quality tourism. one beach is full of garbage and we don't want housing books all over the islands. i, the activists say the tourism projects like luxury hotels, out of times illegal and the destroy natural habitats. to projects in southern pen and re fi have been particularly contentious. all of this resentment is also driven by dissatisfaction with present living conditions. people complain of low wages, limited water supplies, and the housing crisis to them. whole model of tourism is unsustainable. it's not only the tourism project, it's the cues, the precarious work, the unemployment and the weariness, the people who are tired of it to test those also want the government to consider imposing october stacks, that might discourage visitors and bring in revenue to improve the lives of local

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