the way refugees become pools in a cruise to a single country, missouri, i'm afraid i'll never see him again. when, oh, you lost under the stops december 18th on dw, the this, the w 9 is coming to live from berlin. ukraine calls for a full nato membership keep says is the only security guarantees that make a difference in the face of question, aggression. but native foreign ministers meeting and brussels look set to say no for now. also coming up is on this rebels take control of more territory and serious northwest. we looked at what the flare up in this simmering complex means. president bush unlocked sod spreadsheet, the

hello, i'm terry martin. good to help you with us. ukraine is calling for full nato membership, saying is the only security guarantee in the face of russia's invasion. foreign ministers from the alliance are due to start 2 days of meetings focusing on supporting keeps continuing defense against russia. president, logging me as the landscape suggested that he could agreed to receive spar with russia if nato expenses protection through the parts of the country, the control volume crane. the lines, as so far as the client offer ukraine membership over concerns that the war with russia would escalate into a conflict involving our brussels bureau chief, alexandra from nomine is covering this nation meeting. alexander the war, and ukraine is top of the agenda, today's gathering. i gather data for ministers, have already decided that this is not the right moment for ukraine to join the

alliance. why? as well, they will certainly listen towards the ukraine and foreign minister who will also be here to meet with them. have to say about it has to say, but then we'll talk about to discuss the issue of a dinner, but of 2 of them to, to say yes to such a request to they would own needs to be on the same page. and there are some members of the alliance, the baltic states, for instance, but also friends who say they are actually in favor of extending an invitation for a membership to ukraine. but others, 1st and foremost to do as a and germany, they have been opposing such a decision and they own, as i said, needs to sign off on that. and some of them are saying, listen, ukraine still needs to implement the importance of the forms to be on the same page

with other natal members about of course, to degrees and for them. so think no to ukraine's request is the fear of that. it's a really tough to open up talks to welcome a new member of when the country is still at war because that could of course drag the lions into the conflict. so there is in substance no change of this position. given all that, alexandra tell us more about why ukraine is pushing for progress. now, on joining the alliance as well in a one diploma told us that you cannot blame them for increasing the pressure for wanting to become a member of the alliance. when you look at the situation on the front lines, and of course, when you consider that many here assume that would still not trump soon taking office. a queen may be pressed into some kind of talks with russia. and that is

probably the reason why presidents that lensky is now saying, if we are going to have any kind of negotiations, we have to make sure that we have additional guarantees from individual nato countries in addition to the agreements already signed. so in need to a membership full of ukraine would be, of course, on top of his list, but, but many, he understands that nato countries will needs to offer ukraine some kind of additional guarantees to make sure that they are protected and defended shoots there. one, d, b, a kind of ceasefire with russia. the elephant in the room at that meeting of course, is us present elect donald trump. he has repeatedly threatened to withdraw from nato and to not defend member sites if they were attacked. center your for a produce report on the crucial role that the us place in nato. let's take

a look at that. or that's neither of you as worship. supposing symbol of american military power, whether etc, in the air, for a land, for the last 75 years need to allies has been able to count on for you as support. but what if those days are over? jimmy share form, i need to official as well. the pessimistic is the leader of the alliance. and the key provide all that kind of older, an infrastructure, trump sale, but is a totally different kettle of fish. and i think that would be, it would be very difficult for nato to survive without the united states. it could live palm for a period of time, but no doubt, a new structure with needs to be crated. it seems unlikely. donalds, trump would pull out from the alliance altogether, after all, he would needs do us congress to sign off on such a decision. but during his 1st term and the white house,

trump didn't high to school and for nato and experts say there are many ways in which he could, we can it. he could start pulling q s troops out of fuel, or still providing equipment that is needed there. think about the command and control functions. think about the satellite, imaginary. think about strategic air lifting. these are all things where you're up for really depends on the americans to and that will be a problem. critics say you opinions have become complacence relying on you asked protection. but in the last few years, they actually have stepped up their game with 23 out of 32 natal members. no spending at least 2 percent of the ttp on defense. syrup is also ramping up its arms and ammunition production. but its defense industry is still very much fragmented. whereas the united states provides its troops with a largely unified sets of equipment. the, you are peons have a vast variety of, of them incompatible weapon systems. so is america was to reduce its roles,

financing, and equipment. would those be problems for nato? but the biggest risk is don't know. sums continues questioning of nato's mutual defense cloth. by making that distinction between elyse, that he is ready to defend an elyse that he is not ready to defend from the minds the i'm conditional nature of the alliance is solid. doroty experts tell us that if that continues rational might consider a nature is no longer a functioning alliance and starts to challenge it directly. this is the worst case scenario for many in europe who the fear that if you creating falls, nato countries in eastern europe could be next. but with the new u. s. of ministration. really let that happen. europe at the war is bad for business. so before you can actually shift your resources away from europe, you need this to be stable, there needs to be peace. so your best hope is that instead of this engaging from

the continent, the new you ask that ministration might feel it needs to fix the security situation . the 1st before it can focus on the bigger challenge and trumps mind, which is asia and china in particular. alexandra, there's been a lot of talk of making nato trump proof before donald trump takes office again. what are they to members doing in that regard? as well? does so clues, 1st and foremost, under help for ukraine, that is why we need to, as alliance, has a taking over more coordinating role when it comes to training, also ukrainian soldiers. the also wants to have a bigger role when it comes to the so called lunchtime group. this is a group of more than 50 countries who meet together on a regular basis. it to assess what's kind of

a weapons ukraine needs. so nato is also going to have a big, it's a big i called in a think role for those meetings. however, when we speak about the alliance itself, i think that's what's natal numbers are trying to do is to convince the incoming q as having his ration and dads, they were peons on doing more for their own defense, that there are increasing their spendings. and what's my clue to, at the new secretary general, all the lines is trying also to do is to convince donalds, trump he met with him in florida. that what is happening here in europe is important for the secure which is to do a situation in the in the pacific. when we consider that there are noise korean troops fighting in us on the side of russia supporting rush, i wouldn't be consider that one is providing for my shots, which midsize with loan steps to our legation. that's a china is also,

i'm chinese companies are producing at tech drones for russia. and so i think the attempt here is to convince donalds, trump, that it's important to state in gauge in nature and also to support ukraine. because the believe here is that he needs to understand that the security architecture in europe is crucial for the u. s. and also a for the situation in the, in the pacific. alexander, thank you very much. that was our brussels bureau chief alexander phenomena a thank you. the for ministers of around in turkey say they will resume diplomatic efforts together with russia to end the conflict in syria. turkey backs the rebel forces who sees the city of the left, the lightning offensive over the weekend. around and russia support the regime of

president bush. auto saw the revel advance marks the most serious development in the syrian more since 2020. the syrian army is rushing soldiers and weapons to hum my province in north western syria. it's trying to break the momentum of the insurgents who were moving southward after capturing large parts of it, lived on a level provinces to the north, including a level city which had been under government control for the last 10 years. serious army chief traveled to the new defensive line and how not to rally the troops. this is our land and our pride. anyone who breaks the law, anyone who has been hard to stand against us, we will make an example as and pay them. in a low city armed militants roam the streets, freely taking celsius outside left. those eye clinic to the go and it's

airport syrian and russian war plains bomb to level. after it was over, run, it only took a few days for the rebels to joel the front lines of serious civil war which have remained largely frozen since 2020. the revel coalition consists of multiple groups with differing audiology is what unites them. is their opposition to syrian president, bashar al assad, the wave into the city center, stone, ping on your head. god willing, we will find you. you pig. in the city, a rebel control stronghold in the north. people are being subjected to daily air strikes, volunteers with the syrian civil defense known as the white helmets are helping to find the injured under the rubble and taking them to hospital. thank you to find me is massive destruction caused by the bottom and surface area. this neighborhood is residential and the regime forces deliberately talking to them with

direct strikes. several people i enjoyed working with our teams are still working to search for these traps and transport them to the nearest hospital. aside is meeting with regional partners, including iran, to try to shore up support for years. he was able to beat back off position fighters with the help of russia, huron, and his beloved, it's believed the rebels decided to strike. now, knowing those allies were either weakened or distracted by their own conflicts. take a quick look at a few other stories making headlines today. court in vietnam is upheld the death penalty and the quote in the country's largest fraud case, real estate site crew, and true on my land had healed for people conviction, which elsewhere responsible for embezzlement of bribery and the bank fraud. speaking, the court ruled that her execution could be replaced with the lesser penalty if she repeats about $11000000000.00 in law. some protesters have clashed with police for

5th consecutive nights in the georgia and capital. simple, easy worth. thousands have been rallying against the government suspension of talks on joining the european union. demonstrators accused ruling george and dream party of steering the country closer to russia. more than 200 people had been arrested since the rallies began. and romania is constitutional for it is confirmed the results to the 1st round of presidential elections for russian fluoride candidates . colleen, georgia, security surprisingly won. the 1st round will be on the ballot for sundays run off again. along with the conservative elena less strongly, the decision comes a day after parliamentary elections produce a fragmented result in adding to uncertainty. foreshadow it's all, it's beginning to look a lot like christmas here in europe. this past weekend was the 1st about that when seasonal markets traditionally opened their dates. that includes the correlation

potholes annual advantage zagreb testable and thousands of lights and more than 20 individual markets of transformed the city into a winter paradox. sod reps tours. ford says over a $100000.00 international visitors are expected during the 6 week event. thanks for watching the good news. innovation. green, the green revolution global. so listen to a lot of crime. it's probably up to speed. if the carriers subscribe to those channels to subscribe to plan, it's a harvesting

olives in a hurry, we have to get a move on the goal from us last night. gains to feed. so targeting produce, growing by farmers like antonio mazda. it shouldn't be not feeling frustrating. look the sacrifice for him. he came home with my family. my colleagues got out of it after working all day in the field, look for having to guard them as well. and tonio feels powerless in this game of cat mouse, one, where criminals rarely get caught in a battle over precious olive oil. which i think in the 60 years of all the farmers here will have given up. the

antonio is putting all his faith in this harvest. the 1st 10 picked yield after 2 disastrous years. more and more often these days he's considered giving it up altogether. which is, you know, a little bit of yeah. there's too much for your recruiting and way too many administrative items. how many times there's no generation or to the people don't want to noise this anymore, and i like him to put in no kid a, it's cool. never done. this. antonio's done cfo helps out with where he can this use hardest is expected to be better than in the 2 previous years when crops

were impacted by extreme drought. but give me one day, i'll tell you what that everything is green here now, but in the last drought, even the trees were dry. all good deal because i'm looking at the 2nd i thought a hollywood think that the farmers are grappling with a different problem. this year, all it's div, that's why they're harvesting the fruit as fast as they can. in the we work until the afternoon, unload the harvest and jump in the shower that little then we have to come back out to the fields and petrol them until 12 o'clock in the morning and the younger on the back of droughts and poor harvest olives are more valuable than ever even if the trees are hundreds of years old, the seeds don't care about all they sort of as well as i was in queue lose of all x rays that allow me

look at the branches, see how they're broken. so that a lot of video can help you that the steeds have numerous other thoughts. they've just hit them with this kind of following feel ties. so i feel like the it's a huge financial loss for upcoming years to damage trees. won't produce much fruit and neither the perpetrators nor their criminal network were caught. that equals voters, there must be farmers who died lives from the thieves and channel them into legal circulation the, the okay. there's no other explanation that will kind of,

that's how you might have faced with a recent state of stuff like these. antonio is seriously thinking about giving up on everything he's worked so hard to build up the he left madrid 15 years ago for a more peaceful life. returning to his home region of nevada, the payment, the processing, i know online. it says how amazing i thought id life on this one are here is both an illusion. your and the greek sacrifice. what we're trying to see if you're seeing a creature like this makes it all worthwhile. a. what else can i say? this is life, you might be the the,

the merino lambs, are antonio's pride and joy and a 2nd income stream along with the olives. he and his family also make sausage and cheese. the dream of an idyllic life has long since been shattered. the in the wake of 2 consecutive drought years 2022 and 2023 olive oil production plummeted by more than half the crap failures in spain. the world's largest producer of olive oil cent price is skyrocketing across europe. in

spanish supermarkets, the valuable bottles are now fitted with security tags or lock to shelves. the at the olive mills, antonio also gets more money per kilo within a year the price of olive oil has more than doubled, didn't stain the . but antonio has still made a loss because of the crop failures, and to make matters worse now there are criminal games trying to get to the honor the center since every year. the more this year because of the price rise,

the stolen olives are shipped to other regions for pressing. the farmers aren't the only victims in this type of crime. oil, no operators are also impacted. jose medina had 4 break ends in 2023. they were highly professional jobs you can see it here. then they smash the stones and open the door that way. but the one with a crow bar, you beforehand perpetrators cut the power supply to the alarm system. the cost of jose after 4 burglaries in

quick succession 80000 years but haven't until thought got those 600 stay sold. a total of 14 pallets from up. they're not all the ones they must have used a forklift truck is we're making a loss because of the brake ends and the email for the only because our insurers are refusing to pay out to go by the pseudo leave with the little spider. because he's sick, they say our alarm system should have directly alerted the police. nothing. you know, most of the police here. that's why they're not paying a sense. if you think this, i guess what? nobody jose has been running his oil mills for 25 years. a kim ploy is the staff of 7, but doesn't know if he can keep them on his oil is derived from an ancient grove

with good soil, as well as regular oil for restaurants. he also exports selected products as far as japan and taiwan. but the business now has an uncertain future. so, they also stole from here and took the 5 liter bottles. i mean, the other bottles to have everything but the vinegar implemented. i feel so powerless and angry, honestly, i'd like to kill these guys. and i thought of all the effort we put into the oil for the thought and it's gone now for a lot is worse. so the insurance company doesn't pay, then jose may go bankrupt. even though the perpetrators of the last breaking were actually cod unit for the date, i asked the police whether the thieves would go to jail and whether i'd get my money

back. they said no. a judge won't impose the prison sentence for this kind of bent . and you won't get any of your money back, it'll be taken on kind of getting on patrol with a special unit of stains, environmental police, a board or checking the think it today run, come over, has been with stains, nature protection service for 30 years. his unit is on the all of thieves trail and stepping up the number of raids, partly because there's growing pressure on investigators to bring more of these cases to court the of the levels. so as i might say mostly still look nice, but it's safer. as soon as we are moving,

but actually we're now seeing more day time rates, only larger. think us the about from sign explains that it's impossible to be everywhere all the time. and frankly admits, even with the help of drones and motor bikes. it's difficult to catch the games the there are simply too many of them. on top of that, the police can only detain offenders for a short time. then we come to a maximum 10 percent of the saves. it's difficult and the success rate is minimal in the middle as far as meaning on today's patrol son and his colleagues are looking for a legal bore holes. they're here to carry out an unannounced inspection on the

property of a farmer who grows outlets and oranges comfortably the gate and the we can get through by car. so everything's fenced off. they're definitely trying to block our access to the bottom of that. they've got it from here, there's no option, but to continue on foot the see, there might be gar, dogs running around fine and his colleagues from the waterboard can't be sure. then they find the 1st legal where they drill on here. but the farmer has taken the machinery away

but he can easily reactivate the bar hole when the next dry spell comes around. and in my mind me, that was a full. so let's go look at the other 2. the things to tip offs from neighbors. they know where to find the illegal bore holes. i don't think the, the find your level number spanish law is forbidden to have a well in such close proximity to the stream over there. when i had this old house and its pumping station are illegal

to us, we have to prove that it's in use good as they move they quickly realize it's extracting water us in the for the event. but this alone isn't enough to slap the farmer with a fine. they must also prove that the seal a fixed on the left inspection isn't damaged in any way. no. we're not behind you. some of the look at the seal is still on. it hasn't been tampered with more money for those, but it seems that the inspectors are finding more and more boar holes also as a result of the drought. because some farmers will do anything to save their crops, even if it's against the law. kind of the most our farmers are using more water every year, which means ground water levels are thinking about expanding.