right, i'll never see him again. no way. oh you lost under the stops december 18th on dw, the this is the w news live from violin. ukraine renews calls for, for nathan membership. keeps says it is the only security guarantee that could make a difference in the face of rough aggression. but nato foreign ministers missing in brussels. a still don't saying yes. will say coming up on the program is limits, rebels, head on the statue of the brother of syria's president, special aside as they continue, they're involved in the countries northwest, siri and all the forces are expected to launch a counter attack and health alarm in delhi dw reports on the dangers of toxic cats of pregnant women and that unborn children.

the menu mckinnon. welcome to the program. nato's secretary general mark for a to has a member states to step out the military supports for ukraine. his coal comes off to ukraine, once again pushed so progress on joining the alliance. nice had foreign ministers, amazing to discuss continued support for the keys in its defense against moscow. president, below them is the landscape suggested that he could agree to the sci fi with russia . if nato extends its protection to the parts of the country controlled by keys, they say the sofa declined to say when or how it will all set ukraine membership. outside of the concerns that the will with russia could escalate into a conflict involving the alliance mot grotesque as well. and so the next few months

of the will will be decisive. stupid aim is entering a nother cookchildrens and scriptures aggression shows no sign of abating. just the opposite boots. it is ramping up his rhetoric and reckless actions. he is using ukraine as a testing ground for experimental mishaps, and is deploying north between soldiers in this illegal work. bolton is not interested in peace. he's pressing on trying to take more tactic because he thinks he can break ukraine's results and hours. but he's wrong. you great as right to defend itself, and we have a duty to help him. so we need to continue our steps fast support and we cross straight to brussels and speak to our correspondent, the terri schultz. terry. what more did mock ruth to say about the possibility of ukraine becoming a member of the military alliance anytime soon?

you know, margaret, i didn't address this directly. in fact, as you alluded to earlier on. yeah. when asked about whether this piece proposal that is now promot, advisor lensky himself, had any legs. he said, you know, i don't really think zalinski needs piece proposals. he needs more weapons and then he launched into his, his uh, you know, campaign to send more military support to ukraine. so we kind of side step that question, but it very much is on the table here at this meeting. there's a lot of talk behind the scenes about the possibility that foreign ministers could somehow come to agreement on this. come to consensus among the $32.00 that ukraine could be offered an invitation, and this recommendation to leaders that would be considered a huge step in ukraine's past towards natal membership. at the same time, i have to say it's considered very, very unlikely that that all 32 countries would agree. and it's not just the normal sort of anti ukraine countries that are against this idea. it's also germany in the

united states. they simply don't believe that now is the right time with a war raging on its territory that ukraine can be offered any sort of nato membership, even as nato has pledged that ukraine will become a member someday. mm hm. speaking of the united states, that has been a little tool, has an arrow about making nato trump proof. what can you tell us about what nation members doing or ready to pass? so the next trump presidency as yeah, they've been using that term trunk proofing. now, for a couple of years, ever since the president elect announced he would be the candidate, they've known they needed to do something because he was so angry about natal all the time in his 1st term. so the 1st thing they're doing is pointing out that i'm like, when trump had his 1st administration of the when only a handful like 5 or 6 countries were spending 2 percent of their g, d, p on defense. now that number is 23 of 32, so they're using it every where you can hear mark richard pointing it out.

constantly that now actually what's trump had wanted and markers, it gives him personal credit. a lot of the time for pushing countries to, to spend more. now many of them are way up there. and in fact, poland for example, is spending far more than the united states by its g d, p on defense. the 2nd thing they're doing is it by trying to convince donald trump that rushes help from north korea will benefit china. that if you pre loses this war, it will be china that benefits. because of course, we don't know exactly what he thinks about russia, but we do know that he has very antagonistic toward badging. so they're very much hoping that by laying out this argument, the nexus between russia and china, they will get convinced donald trump that ukraine should win the war. and some sources here at nato have said, that's actually seems to be gaining some traction with the president elect, so they're hopeful that they can try to garner us support in the end for ukraine by making this argument. terry, thank you so much for bringing us up today. that's so interesting. dw is terry schultz and brussels. thank you. all right, we're going to take

a look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world today. and george's top court has rejected the challenge to the countries october elections. the countries outgoing president filed the lawsuit and seeking to have the parliamentary vote declared unconstitutional. routing comes after a 5th nice of protest spots by the government's decision to pull. accessing talks with the european union to data cables connecting sweden and finland being damaged near helsinki, affecting thousands of internet customers. initial reports of the 2 breaches spelt to long after the recent suffering of 2 bolts succeed communication cables. but data infrastructure provided global connect said one break was from excavation, work and finish. police was saying there's no evidence that either disruption was deliberate. and it may seem between the restoration, great prime ministers as raising hopes the missing parts of the pulse. and on 2500

year old freeze can be returned home to athens, taken from the monuments and the early 18 hundreds. the novel sculptures have spent 2 centuries in the precision museum in london, talks between the museum and greek officials to repack create them. next year are reportedly well advanced. of course, in vietnam has upheld the death penalty for the woman behind the nation's largest financial fraud case. real estate tycoon, true on my line, had appealed to april conviction for embezzlement and bribery. she stole more than $12000000000.00 and a bronze bang for the scheme. the court said that her life could be sped if she pays back 3 courses of the stolen funds. and some more we can cross to michael to tell sky who is a freelance journalist based in hope she me and sissy vietnam. welcome michael. so

the judges have upheld the death penalty for fraud. is that normal in vietnam? no, it's not. and the death penalty is a bit of a state secret, so it's not, we're clear how many people are sunset house um at any given time or on death row at any given time, but for a so called white collar crime like fraud. this is highly unusual, usually that sometimes is more of a way to, to drive the way to charges like smuggling or, or, or, you know, murder, things like that. notice is not, not minimal. mm hm. and of it. and then these little hearing land could still save her life by re paying 3 quarters of the $12000000000.00 that she took. how much time would she have to come up with us? some of us the amounts of the mountain money and how realistic do you think that would be or the timeline is unclear. it's been, i mean, i will say of the job just assisting me justice system here. excuse me. i'm not

terribly transparent. i haven't seen any announcements what the timeline may be just noting this is still a possibility. certainly there won't be a rush to to execute her. um, i believe it's not uncommon for people to be on death row for extended periods of time. and even for lower profile cases, goodness and officials, we certainly want to give as much time as possible. i would think to recover those money. as for the feasibility again it's, it's hard to say, i mean, a lot of for money is tied up in buildings. some finish some incomplete projects that are a company or, or, you know, a colleagues are kind of wildly overvalued or at least they argue that are undervalued on the market. so selling those will be challenging. many of them are obviously embroiled in legal disputes, given this ongoing case. it's believe she's return some amount of money, but it's not entirely clear how much and how much more can be recovered. a michael,

you mentioned that this was obviously a high profile case. what's the reaction being to this and then um i think the reaction today has been you did, i don't think it was very surprising. i mean, her appeal was, i think there's a way universally believed that could expect it to be rejected that the sentence would be upheld. but there was some surprise earlier in the air when she receive the desk contents, in part because it's like i know some beautiful for and bells on that. given the sheer size of the numbers involved. i don't think there was a shock at honestly, at this point i think people here kind of just want this to be at the rear view mirror and get these on finish projects, some of which are quite an eyesore on the skyline here in ocean city. moving again and i didn't we get the banking system back to health. uh so today is ben, i think muted, i would say, okay, michael petoskey and how did she mean? so she will have to leave it that the thank you so much i

so the pollution is facing people hauled in india is the capital daily pregnant women and their unborn babies all facing additional, dangerous experts won the pool at quality increases the risk of pregnancy complications like pre clumps here and can even lead to premier troll bus. there also warnings that prolonged exposure to toxic can disrupt a baby's development. awesome a good and her husband. and what about the health of the unborn child? doctor? i'm here to see my doctor because i'm feeling anxious and having trouble breathing the abuse and indeed is that hazardous levels and awesome, i wanted to see and kind of colleges to check. a baby is not in danger. it's due in one month. the doctor's assistant major was high blood pressure and reduced activity unborn child dr. off,

whatnot. advices last month to stay in those like many of the other patients. how is she has seen the shop rights and pregnant women complaining, a breathing difficult diesel and mothers forced to go book prematurely the effect that opening delivery. but one of them is ed pollution because the level of in pollution is very high and they live this time. and every pregnant woman's odd having somebody thing shows this, but it is true that listeners, i'm being of dolman that say dave has increased chance of freedom, deliberate charities, one of the most, if you could see some the was, many of them are in saltisha and medical studies show that the region has highest rates of pregnancy last global exports. the, there's a link in india does come back to us. believe the health guy sees for the lack of

political will to balance rapid, double up in talk with and what a meant to protection or pointing out that there are some who suffered more than others. kind of keys, adults like smoke smoke is affecting every everyone in the city is not going to sped anybody, but it's still, it's still under privilege. the who are the most wonderful meet little thought, the daily wage. labor working in construction. she's one of the many invisible hands that followed in just the konami group. she is due to gilbert in a few months and has no way to predict scottsdale from dr. phil holding the slums off was no installation. and she has to go out on money. the pin number, i have 3 children to feed. we're poor people. if we don't go out to work, how will we survive if they can just few store one out of house

sometimes i cough and then sometimes i get a headache. i feel dizzy, and i can't stand for long from what it was me and my back hurts at times. and when i think about my child, i feel an easy to you up with. i can do about it. stories like little thoughts about that to me. i'll read cannot even increase the act was, sees it style, told it these take action on it or not, and started protecting the lives of mothers and children of the maya from going. so we expect from the government, nothing short of getting there. this is what the citizens want. this is what the article 20 bundle for constitution fees. uh for children, it's almost right to clean as clean water the right and that's right. she sees visualized on mothers and children. interesting rather than richard. so i've looked up con, nobody out there, but took

a biography just open ticket. that was the view from india. and i, let's head across the border to pakistan where there is also a record breaking levels of sick talk sick smoke shroud in the countries east in the past weeks are roughly alum joins us from the whole. he's an environmental lawyer and climax of us. welcome to the w. a. we just heard about the risk, but talk sick, smoke opposes during pregnancy. you're an attorney. what do you think about this from a legal perspective? well, you know, we know that the evolution, especially bmw 2.5 very small particulate matter. good boss, to human logs and into the bloodstream and can be conveyed by pregnant women to the unborn children. we know that the young children of most of set to go to evolution and actually in the punjab, the province that i live just last january. when we had a severe absolution of and over $500.00 children, died of pneumonia,

which of course is the respiratory disease, but exacerbated by air pollution. it's very clear to me that evolution violates the fundamental right to life. you've called the the issue of top 6. now the regional crisis level, where you are as just 25 kilometers from the border with india. it's tell us what your biggest concerns are about this situation as well. let me respond by putting this into context. the world health organization sees that about 9000000 people annually lose their lives prematurely due to avenues. but this number, this staggering number isn't equally distributed around the earth. it's constance treated in the cities of asia in africa. the cities like daily cities like law hall, and what we need to realize is that there are millions of people that risk and which i'm oper hints of about is politicians and leaders in india and focused on let in politics getting the weight of what we need is

a very serious issue. we know what to do to improve evolution. we know that we need to improve our refineries come to the renewal with electricity and many other things. electric vehicles change the way redesign or cities, but cooperation between these 2 countries, even though it seems unreal, unrealistic right now might open up the confidence building measures that could be leverage to improve equity. the government in pakistan herself the panel to of the c. preventative efforts, what would your message be to them? well, i don't miss diagnosed the problem. a lot of times i hear that it's a lot hard smog seasonal issue, which is it's not law how specific it's regional. smog is a particular type of evolution that goes with this smoke and fall, go metro logical condition. we have a long regional public health emergency, and it has to be diagnosed. it's such if you want to be able to do something about

the whole was race at the world's most pollution, especially in the past month. do you think that that can be turned around to the number of cities around the world that haven't gone to the air? pollution is the 20th century and have overcome it. evolution is not so easily. it's not cheap and it doesn't. it's not quick. what is requires is leadership and political will supported by a civil society that has a vision of a clean future that's more reliable and sustainable than the 5 your election cycle . i think that's what's crucial. it's what's needed for fire, alarm environmental, or employment to the stress. i thank you so much for your time. no position activists in serious, se, insurgents all pushing ahead with their offensive against government forces capturing several new towns. i'm closing in on the city of hama,

state troops say they have retaken some territory. last and last week, surprise attack, in which alexa was also seized by in the lines of rebel groups. the united nation says nearly 50000 people have been displaced by the slightest fighting in the sign of disdain for the regime of sculpture of president bush, char ellison's late brother is toppled by protesters and elect, though a serious 2nd largest city. and several surrounding areas are now under rebel control. after a surprise offensive land by the islamist rebel group, higher terrier alshaun or h t s. as well as opposition fighters backed by turkey. this footage film by the militants shows them entering was believed to be president assad's palace in a level. and insurgents were also seen at the cities international airport, which they claimed to have seized with almost no opposition from government forces . as rebel groups intensified the result,

thousands of civilians are fleeing the fighting in a level and other areas in the north. getting to safety is a challenge. my thought is he had the number to call me, but you don't know who anybody is. you might find isis selves on the road. there could be shooting because the syrian army are no longer deployed here. these are the risks we may face. the syrian army is trying to break the insurgents momentum with support from russian war plains and its allies among iran, back militias. but with a run in moscow mired and their own conflicts, president assad may not be able to depend on as much support from them as he would like. now with conflicts raging in several parts of the middle east, arab americans a wasting a to see how donald trump's new administration will handle foreign policy decisions . the in particular, the will and garza detail is janelle malone reports now from michigan state with

a large arab american community. and one that was won by donald trump. they may be in michigan, but the hearts and minds of these arab americans are focused on the middle east. almost everyone here know someone affected by the conflicts there. these high schoolers in northville, a suburb of detroit or fundraising for relief efforts. asking speaker is like, ma has a don to talk about the war. i was the last in the line the the palestinian american law graduate. so she's hopefully things will get better. but she's also worried about trumps appointees. such as my call could be from bassett or to israel. huckabee one said that there's no such thing as a palestinian and that speaking of the palestinian people was a political tool to try and force land away from israel. it's very disappointing to

see who, hey, he chose to a point because it seems like they're all part of this broader agenda to continue to support israel and to continue to ignore and completely act like they're not committing crimes. like no children are dying like no. so billions are being targeted over in the air of american majority, city of dearborn and neighboring dearborn heights, many blame the bite and administration for how israel has conducted the war. many voted for trump, among them, bill by the, the mirror of dearborn heights. he has memories of war himself having 5 w west from lebanon as a child in the seventy's. this bessie campaign for the president elect and michigan, despite trump's track record of supporting israel. the cabinet picks don't bother him, but us military, it does stop shipping weapons. but what they're doing with the weapons is totally against everything that we believe in, you know, like us, when i was in the military, you know, you have rules of engagement. you know,

you have things that you have to abide by. so why are we abiding by something then the people that were sending weapons to their not biding by the same rules. other arab americans felt so strongly about this that they chose to leave the top of their ballot blank, or voted for a 3rd party to show their disapproval of us policy towards israel is like college ronnie. i posted in american active as we met in michigan, a year ago freshman, which we are going to send from on our principals that we're not going to vote for someone who is in a blur of war crimes against thomas m as in gaza. fast forward to today, we catch up with them and ask whether he thinks that was the right thing to do. also in light of trump cabinet picks what i was hoping is that the democrats would take step back and say, okay, obviously we're upsetting a lot of people. however, instead of reflecting, they became more involved and i,

i was never under any this illusion that the trump is going to be better whether they're happy or not, about the outcome of the us election. air of americans and michigan and elsewhere are united in their hope 1st with and to the war. they just have different visions about how that can be achieved and who it was. got some breaking news that's just coming in the south korean president. how's the pled muscle in a surprise, live, address you on? so hill said the measure is needed, so it protects the country from north korea's communist forces and to eliminate what he called m t state elements. the opposition has already declared the president's move unconstitutional and says it will seek to nullify it. we will bring you more on that story. as soon as we have it to the full my job in town. sl angela maxwell has reunited with one of her closest allies when she was in office. that's the full met us president obama. michael was in washington dc for an event

to launch him all that an evening with angela miracle and bare rock obama. the sold out event in washington dc was for the launch of miracles, memoir, the 2 former political allies reunited to discuss her personal life and the crazy she faced during her tenure as the german chancellor. medical defended her open board and migration policy that took in over 1000000 refugees and asylum seekers in 2015. i saw that the time we cannot simply give sunday speeches and saying how much we respect human rights so much we respect human dignity and then all these people come out who's sick century and we tell them no for you. we don't have room way. we don't have this hot. i all despite criticism over her policies, there was plenty of praise for the former german chancellor. seen macro. somebody

has done so much for europe in person. amazing. i think it was so interesting to see the, to brock obama and ongoing merkel like in conversation together. that was like just tearing about their relationship from each other in real time. was amazing. after all these years of work and relationships of i'm and other chancellor having other than work with president trump. the still see that in action was this wonderful hoping to find somebody 3010 like i'm a, i'm a young guy as i speak to and like, obviously there's lot can be a lot of inquiries. and from this book that i took off from, for me, i'm responding to rate the expectation for the future. from angela, for 16 years, medical lead, europe's largest economy, shipping, german and european politics. her successes and failures are facing renewed scrutiny with many, asking how her decisions have contributed to the challenges of today. many one is aware that you are up to date stay tune coming up next bloss looks at peruse new

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