right, and why are they willing to risk everything? avon faces of anger, march 19th on the w. c . w, they're just going to lie from berlin, european union confronts what it calls a clear and present danger. and that's how the european commission president describes the us shift towards russia. words aimed at freeing of billions of bureaus to rearm and confidence as they no longer be able to rely protection from washington. and also coming up in syria reports of dozens killed in clashes between government troops and forces loyal to our leader bush out of stock. plus what started as a successful launch turned into another setback, freeland must space x. as in starship, rocket explodes and scattering firing debris across the night sky. some of

the little i'm terry martin to have you with us. you're being union leaders of health, crisis talks and brussels in the wake of washington's apparent pivot away from its transatlantic partners. the summit was sparked in part by a heated exchange between us president donald trump and ukraine's president belonging meals lensky at the white house, which exposed the growing rift between the us and it's our lives. european commission, president or slip on the line is proposing a joint procurement fund and changes the fiscal rules that could unlock up to 800000000000 years of extra military spending to this public display of support for ukraine's will we re, president, was the 1st thing you need just wanted to achieve with this emergency meeting,

which comes a week of to the let him use savanski was kicked out of the white house off the caching for donald trump. the front of the me. yeah, we do seems to day when we will continue with you know, and we will continue in the future. i want to thank all our european leaders festival and for such signal, strong support of these concepts from support from the world we, you know, the war and the lots being during all this pure and last week you stay with us zalinski use the occasion to us you need us to continue urging washington to involve, keep in peace negotiations with moscow. you need to agree with savanski, that an agreement to stop the fighting without security guarantees for ukraine wouldn't to, to russia from attacking again. the summit statement, e, you need is having door says a ceasefire, must be part of a process that leads to

a full peace agreement. it adds that any agreement must be accompanied by quote, robust and credible security guarantees for ukraine or henry's prime minister, big the old on, didn't back the statements. but all the leaders have committed to working together to both the goods defense they discussed easing the block street budget dead rules . so member states can increase their military spending. today, history is being written. we're coming out of this european council, very determined to ensure europe security and to act with the scale the speed and the result that the situation demands. i present that the re on your plan today to the lead us a plan to give you up the military capability that it needs to face to day sweats. it's coach, mobilize up to $800000000000.00 euros, and it is about taking more responsible on our shoulders for our own security. this

is a moment of indication for fonts is presented to manual con, who for years has been urgent care up to build the capacity to defend itself without relying on nature and the united states. fonts is now considered and protecting european allies with its new pos know, could you pull position to propose to open a strategic conversation with the member states that are interested in making progress on this subject? the more i don't say so, so she it's an option that would have been unthinkable under the decades of transatlantic cooperation. thursday's use of it has been described as historic. i asked on a visa, endo director for northern europe at the atlantic council. what she makes of the use push to mobilize 800000000000 euros in defense spending. well, i think this has been a historic week actually for europe. we finally see that europe comes up in the

amount of money needed to actually make a difference when it comes to talking about creating european defense. we have had such small sums before initiatives, but a very low level at industry. others have, you know, said that this is not enough, these, these are peanuts. that's what we have been discussing. but now, with the ability of mobilizing 800000000000 euros. and we saw also germany taking decisions in the range of, of perhaps $400000000000.00 euros. and then 500000000 useful investments, the investments in infrastructure. these are the kinds of initiatives. these are the kind of sounds that we need to get used to talking about. if we are to create more of a european defense ability spending is one thing ramping up capabilities quickly and bundling them effectively as something else. again, how well is your position to do that in the defense sector as well?

i mean, we have an extra little defense industry, so what we haven't, but we've had a very awkward situation in the past years where everyone recognized the need for increasing procurement quickly, both to feel our own stocks, but also to provide for ukraine of course. and to be able to sustain that circle and increase our overall at defense capabilities. but the industry has said that they have not had enough security long term security to do the investments. and the petitions have said that, you know, we have provided that and it is to of industry schools. so to get out of that deadlock, you need to be able to move forward. and that's what i expect. things to happen out of the course. industry must see that there is enough money, long term commitments in order for this to get going. and the politicians to provide the framework that is needed in order to get the production and fairly quick rate. and if we have that set up, i think that's all the other components actually on their own,

or it's easily solvable. that was on a visa lender. they're a director for a northern europe atlantic council speaking to me a short while ago. let's catch up on a few other stories making headlines around the world today. russia has kerry though widespread attacks on ukraine's infrastructure, including in the northeastern city of hot t. 8 people were injured and a missile attack on a residential area in the city, which is one of your cranes largest president polonium is lance be called for a mutual end to such a task. here in germany, workers at 11 airports will strike on monday trade union. vanity is demanding an 8 percent wage rise, a higher bonuses and more days off conditions. employers say if they can't afford, strike comes ahead of a 3rd round of negotiations. now the syrian observatory for human rights says clashes between syrian troops and

forces loyal to alfred leader boshra. i'll outside have killed more than 70 people . the fighting broke out on thursday and is concentrated in coastal cities. in the west series. government has launched the large scale security operation, and ambushed by pro assad fighters near the port city of love talk a killed 13 syrian troops. the region is a strong hold of us. odds porters and the curfew is now in effect. clashes, or the deadly of since us up was toppled by insurgents in just the old. joining me now in the studio for more on this is the w's reporter garcia or hahn is garcia phillips in here. what more do we know about the classes that have been happening in western syria? what's been going on there like terry? like you said, these classes are the worst that we've seen in this particular region in syria's

coast, on serious coast and other white lawyer list to the former regime have been fighting with the current leaderships forces. now the current leadership says that they've captured around $200.00 at soldiers. they have kept us that they're holding at the moment. and they've also managed to launch attacks on these forces. there was an ambush on the low talk you highway and they responded with drones overhead. and there's also alarming information now coming in about a possible executions of captives carried out by the current security forces. this is according to the syrian observer group that you mentioned, the u. k based one. however, i've also seen videos now surfacing on telegram channels documenting these executions. and it is a very brutal of close killings of what appears to be soldiers trying to surrender

or flee. we're talking here about the, a white community, largely in, in western syria that we're clashing with the, the new forces that give us some background here. why are the lights clashing with the security forces of the new leaders in syria? so the yellow lights are a offshoot sacked from sheri's form, and this is the sect of the former president to be ousted regime of syria bush auto asset. so in the sec, there's still a lot of lawyers who are fighting for the former regime and they have a guns and weapons left over from the former regime. and right now the current security forces say they've seized some of these weapons. however, and the lead up to these research classes, there were protests from the white community. some of them have said that they've become target of attacks. they've called for protection. and they've also been

calling for the release of political prisoners. they say people who had served in the former army of the regime high ranking officers were being imprisoned. so they've called for the release of these people. they also have other demands, like asking the current government to not make any legislative decisions and stick to security and services instead. however, this has not happened. they have given a deadline that was the beginning of ramadan that expired. and a lot of them also don't have clearances. so the current security forces, they said all the former fighters who don't have clearance will be held accountable . and they gave like a last of line that was last month. it expired. so now all of this lead to the build up of tensions. garcia, thank you very much. that was a reporter. gotcha. your highness. spell for

a 2nd consecutive tops basics is picking up. the pieces oper launch ended in explosive fashion. the new starship spacecraft is designed to carry along most starling satellites, into orbit in far greater quantities, then as existing fleet success for the new rocket could be worth billions and space cargo contracts. but before business can start booming, the starship itself has to stop going. boom, the debris from the space x. the ship streaked across the night sky above the bahamas. rockies enthusiast who had gathered to watch the space croft lift off sowards explodes, just minutes later. that star shifted here, right where it's supposed to be kind of rising up. initially it had this beautiful big jelly, they call it a jelly fish umbrella,

where the sun reflects off the exhaust fumes and that really look normal. and then it may be got about 20 degrees above the horizon and it turned into a huge ball of fire. video footage shows the a $123.00. me too long rocket to make an initial clean a cent from texas. the full of things started to go wrong. and we just saw some engines go out. it looks like we are losing attitude control of the ship. getting video down from the ship. you can say we've lost several engines and we've lost attitude control of the vehicle. this is the 2nd consecutive failure for the company spaceship program. so for this yeah. in january,

a spacecraft exploded over tax and k costs 8 minutes of to lift off in the social media post space x. as engineers say they plan to learn from the latest failed mission, but this is a blow to own. the e mail must vicious rocket program. the starship spacecraft is designed to travel to the main mas and beyond. most cars become a close advisor to us president donald trump. he recently reminded congress of his own space emissions. we're going to conquer the vast frontiers of science, said we're going to lead humanity into space of plants, the american flag on the planet mars, and even far beyond ex. but so divide to don't if and when emission to miles will be viable. but as the space race heats up, conquering the red planet remains a key go. you're watching dw news from brielle it up next arch and bill

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