i just went outside to take us, i'm at the use of the cruise that we remember when the was small shape on dw the this is the news life from the water shed moment for your for the presidents. have been your paint commission issues a stock morning as the leaders, gavin, for an emergency summit support for ukraine, the future of european defense the agenda. also on the program. russian missile hall destroys a hotel in central view. christ attacked killed several people, leaves the rescue, was racing the site. dozens injured by the blast, the

feel good. welcome to the program. your opinion leaders have been joined by ukrainian president for a lot of them is the landscape for chrisy stokes. i'm to boosting europe's defense spending and showing up support for ukraine. the meeting in brussels comes just days after the us pulls and ministry items intelligent sharing with keith, repeating the nations and now under pressure following the trump administration's decision to distance the united states from european security or the head of the summit, european commission president us off on the line, a stress, the important stuff this moment. this is a water stretch moment for 0 and to crane as part of our european family. it's also watership moment for ukraine. europe faces a clear and present danger. and therefore, europe has to be able to protect itself to defend itself, as we have to put the ukraine in a position to protect itself and to push for loss thing and just piece.

well our brussels bureau chief, alexandra from nomic is those tulips welcome, alexandra. so i guess they be, the big thing here is building a defense policy, independent of the united states. how united off for a you leave this on this also it seems that there are more united and then and there and diplomats are telling us on of the records that they have sense of a change of mindset among your p and leaders. not a long time ago, it was the 1st and foremost friends that was pushing for more strategic autonomy and sovereignty when it comes to europe's defense. now everybody is talking about death and about the ways to achieve that goal. even leaders such as victor all button, the prime minister of hungry, he is considered

a close friends of the notes of slums and an ally of letting me put him even. he does not seem to oppose this motion for more european independence when it comes to erupt. defense, of course, there are some different ideas and we understand it better when we mentioned the french proposal to show the french nuclear umbrella, which europe and allies. so they do not need to rely on you as nuclear weapons. this proposal was met with some resistance. also from germany, so there on you and says, but i would say overall a great to you need to you when it comes to strengthening europe's defense. okay, so what about concrete steps? what are they actually expected to do? one save agreed. well, we expect the leaders to welcome the proposal instead, so were put forward by that you were p and commission this week. and one of the measures could be implemented very quickly. the youth pin commission has promised

to borrow money at international markets, up to 150000000000 euros, and this money can be handed over to member of state. so the you appear to be union s loans and they can invest this money. and in the on defense or in the defense industries, or they can use this money to buy weapons, then they can deliver those weapons to ukraine. there are also other measures like relaxing the fiscal rules in the repeating union. and that could give some member states a bit of fiscal space to spend more money on defense. so all of that is on the table and we expect the leaders to give it a go. i don't ukraine, which of course is not then a member. we had the commission president sort of funds a line describing it as possible, your a p and family that needs to be defended. how strong and indeed have united it is

to support for ukraine inside the block. we heard from many leaders of emphasizing their support for ukraine, but we should not be no eve. there are still countries such as hungry. i already mentioned that or slovakia, they say they are not delivering new weapons to create and they are rather skeptical when it comes to welcoming ukraine as a new member of the european union. but the rest of the you members, they are supportive and of course this meeting of the whole, i will see you here and the facts to develop the means the landscape was invited. what's meant as long as talks contrast to the contentions meeting in the oval office. but let's have a listen to what's the you creating and present then have it to say here in brussels, the word sampled. that way. i'm not alone then this on all, just the words. we feel as a signal to increase our production and sickness to with

a new program to increase that your pm security it that so i think the great decisions alexandra, you are seeing lead escaping. se thing that the e you needs to be included in any piece initiative for when ukraine, you, as president seems unconvinced. so how does brussels elbow its way to the table? while the you opinions are trying to push for that? we know that friends together with the u. k. now, outside of the blog, not a member of the european union anymore. but both countries are trying to work on that proposal for a truce to a and the fighting in ukraine. and zalinski seems to be open to that, russia not so much, and of course they need the approval of donald trump and you as a ministration. so they are trying to show initiative. but in the end, of course, everyone knows that the u. s. will have

a seat at the table and it's not ruled out that your parents may not get a seat at the table, but they are trying to prevent that from happening. okay, thanks. all right, sounds good, dw is that brussel bureau chief, alexandra from well as the ukranian president shows of your opinion support the violence at home continues. hotel in southern me is that landscape hometown of a crazy rate which reportedly hit by russian miss are open. i can at least 4 people and hospitalized in dozens more in training and officials say us citizens were among those in hotel and when it was struck to get most of my correspondent monks on the innkeeper. welcome max. um, what more can you tell us? all right, so you just said you just decided to the town of clarity in industrial town and central ukraine was attacked last night by a ukranian um rockets um from what we know uh close to 30 people were were injured

. um initially 3 people were killed. the 4th people, a 4th person died reportedly died, died in the hospital, and this is um, roughly a 100 kilometers away from russian occupied territory in, in the central ukraine. and this is an attack on civilian infrastructure that follows a string of similar attacks that happened over the last couple of years with hotels being attack often occupied by journalists or by n g o workers for example. and the i put some context to the situation regarding air defense. some right now you create a struggle to protect the skies looking at a lack of air defense in the future. and attacks like this could become more often, right. the ukranian president of course, in brussels optimum into what ukrainians expecting from this latest. you summit as i would say, there's a lot of hope for europe at the moment. i mean, think everybody here and ukraine has been following the follow up and the law

office last week. the events, uh the news coming out of washington. and there was a sense of being abandoned by your um yeah, strongest supporter who's been by your side for the last 3 years. so from what we're hearing, zelinski is team is trying to fix relations with uh, with the americans. and they won't be able to do without them, but at the same time, they're also turning to the europeans and hope for them to be able to step step it up, fill some of the capacities for some of the capabilities that, that the you, that the americans are likely to pull out or have pulled out already, but all of this is, of course i'm going to need more and then just political will or money. it's also going to need lead time. if you europe does not have the capacity at the moment. this will, it will take time to, to fill the shoes of the american sort of se, and if you really want to make a change on the battlefield, you will have to do more than that actually. okay,

so how is your cray going about finding the school without us military and intelligence assistance? all right, so regarding the intelligence assistance um, from what we're hearing, the printers are still assessing what exactly that means. and the us has intelligence capabilities that know why the country in the world has. they have their own intelligence capabilities. um, other countries, like france for example, have promised to share what they have, but this is likely not going to make up for the loss of us intelligence. and this is crucial on the battlefield defending yourself against russian attacks, but also attacking within russian territory. for example, just to give you an example, according to experts, it's going to be very difficult for ukrainians to make out russian air defense systems in russia or russian occupied territory, which is going to lead russian aviators get closer to ukraine and how territory use their glide bombs use their cruise missiles, for example, to pave the way for their own ground forces. at the same time,

ukraine still has capabilities to strike with in russian territory with meeting bridge rockets, for example. um, just what they need is the according target is to be able to be effective. so what has proven a very successful strategy in the past as attack and russian command post attacking russian munitions depos within russia. this is going to be a lot more difficult without us intelligence that's going to make the ukranian weapons less effective. and it's going to embolden likely to present, but important to you know, to, to try to take more um, territory a while you practice trying to adapt to this new situation. as max dw max on the in key. i will take a look at some, most orders making headlines will start in lucy, whitening which has become the 1st year to pay and union a country to withdrawal from the international convention on cluster munitions. more than $120.00 countries signatures to the convention,

which prohibits the acquisition use and production of the weapons. if you wayne is boarded by the russian territory of kelly named cried underbrush as close as allied brothers. who was president, donald trump has taken just social media to issue what he called his last warning to have mass leaders threatening further destruction in gaza. less o remaining is ready to be hostages. released only 3 years president met with free captives um, in the white house where he pledged to return those still being held chinese nationals who were traffic to scum sentencing me and my arm being returned home time and which board has me in my eyes facilitating the return of golden, 1400 people and they wouldn't do it to the region on the problems of lucrative jobs, but forced to work for online. for instance, instead a soft committee where the ministry says pilot error caused one of his fights with jets to accidentally dropped 8 bombs of

a civilian area during training. a people were injured and several buildings down between the cast. 16 jets released the bombs onto a city close to the border with north korea. south korean military says it will hold a lot of drills while the incident is investigated and that they also said the victims will be compensated to english stuff. i've been crouch my is in the south korean capital unexplained how the incident unfolded as yeah, the incident happened during regular military exercises that are conducted here by the south korean army together with the u. s. army. and then something really unprecedented happened. and we talk about an area that is actually quite close to the north korean border because those submitted to exercise is a part of a deterrent strategy against the threats from the north. but the usually i'm those fighter jets, they fly around shooting ranges and then drop their bones. but this time a fight

a pilot has dropped a bombs on civilian area on a village. and um yeah, people were in judge buildings were destroyed. but given what we know, i think it's rather astonishing that the damage is not even much greater because to drop the bombs that were dropped are a so called mock 80 to bottom stair, 500 pounds heavy. they're more than 2 meters in length, and their radios of destruction is comparable to a football field. so it's really serious damage. it's probably crash or, well, it's ortho is in may okay. have launched a new scheme and it preventing flooding and parts of the country side with the help of people's semi classic models protect wetlands by building dams, reshape areas of open forces, which in turn also encourages other species to thrive of a 100 to needed extinction. in the u. k. in the 16th century, but study re releasing them into sudden habitats. it's hope for they'll make a come back. all right, i set you up today tom, we'll,

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