will loose. we know freedom will win. that week 3 will change the world and this will be a change. did the wolf has long needed? it will be a big tory, all where the, where the apple, the war. any aggressor doesn't matter, big or small will know what awaits him. if he gets text international, what out? any aggressor is going to lose. also coming up ethnic russians living in the baltic countries. this is what rushes propaganda. machine is feeding a new government to each country, the national people's republic of estonia. this was thought a national people's republic of latvia lithia and the national people's republican of lithuania. but let me sca matter what that is because it's lip laska matter what net is public us. ah, that's who our viewers watching. p b s in the united states into all of you around the world. welcome. we begin the day with a big thank you from ukraine to the u. k. a. thank you. in advance today, ukraine's president zalinski paid a visit to london where he spoke with you. k lawmakers doubling down on his plea for western allies to provide ukraine with fighter jets. in fact, zalinski thanked lawmakers for the aircraft, even though no plains have been promised or delivered yet. at a press conference with zalinski british prime minister soon act, he said that his country wants to be able to provide those fighter jets. and that could signal a crack in what has so far been a wall of resistance among major european allies. unwilling to send fighter jets and moscow it is taking notice to day warning, the u. k. not to send jets to ukraine. here's what zalinski had to say when he addressed lawmakers in london to day and living a british parliament 2 years ago. i thank you for delicious english key. ah, and i will be living the parliament today thanking all of you in advance for paul english, please. ah. all rights, let's go now to ukraine to get the view they're joined by our corresponded nick connelly. he is and keith, nick, it's good to see you. zalinski. we know he pushed hard for battle tanks to be sent from western allies and he pushed until he got a big yes. i want us to take battle. takes out of that equation, replace it with fighter jets. will this tactic work a 2nd time? well, that's also the hope hearing care of, and we've seen time and time again, those red lines and those kind of firewalls between different types of weapons. often people in the west of europe speak of defensive and offensive weapons saying they'd send defensive weapons, but not offensive weapons that has crumbled time and time again. so that's definitely the hope here has be said though, that there are formidable logistical challenges. starting with training pilots, some of the more modern plains, on average, people spend to 3 years training to use them. even the kind of most basic programs take half a year compared to a matter of weeks for the most modern tanks, then you have to service these machines. you're not just training their pilots, but also they're support cruise. and as even the question of whether ukraine would have to rebuild its aerodrome, its air fields provide longer and better quality one ways to make this all possible . and then the further question of c would russia, emily, come in, regular stick missiles will destroy all these new bits of shiny expensive kit coming in. would ukraine have to ask nato countries like poland to allow them to use their field? so lots question mark. there's definitely a sense here and here that they are in a role in this kind of incessant push and questioning has actually paid off and that for all the kind of, you know, cold water coming from will have sholtes to abide in recent weeks. that there is a real possibility of them getting these planes in the next couple of months. and we know that the u. k prime minister, he says that he wants to provide fighter plane training to ukrainian pilots, but he isn't promising planes holding out the prospect may be providing them later. i'm wondering where the ukrainians are. they're going to be disappointed by this, at least, where they be disappointed in private why there are 2 things here. i think firstly in the u. k. has since the beginning of this war was here, go always kind of been 1st and the most willing to take risks and the most willing to provoke as it were the kremlin and cross the criminal red line to the hope that eventually other european countries in the u. s. will rethink their position here. but it is also important to think of these plans. they are not just interesting or important to useless ukraine for the kind of symbolism because they know us things that really interest them. why to public and capture them in imagination. that there for a reason, and they're partly important to strengthen ukraine's air defenses from missiles. you can knock ballistic missile out of the sky with the help of fighter jets and also to attack positions fall behind the front lines. you know, russian logistics hubs within occupied ukraine and in recent days and even in london now, they have been commitments from british government, other western allies, to supply more systems apart from plains that do the same thing. so more re supply more munitions for the s defense is the anti aircraft, anti missile systems ukraine's already received. and also now talk from the brits and also others of miss all the bombs that reach beyond a 100 kilometers. that would really force the russians to spread themselves a lot more thinly, push them 6 back and would make rushes at time versus efforts a lot more difficult. and nick, i want to ask you, we've got about a minute left. we know that battle tanks are supposed to be headed to ukraine, but what we're hearing now reports that the german made russia german made leopard tanks may not arrive until the end of this year. has there been a response from keith to that? what's important to distinguish here between the more modern leopard 2 tanks, which were promised couple weeks ago, which are expected to come on time from germany. actually, if you read the german presses, seemingly a lot of anger in berlin, that other european countries that were trying to push germany to deliver and now not able to hold their pharmacists. the older leopard, one tanks will be coming later. yes, but in far greater number and you take a step back. the important thing to remember here is this is kind of crazy year ago . none of us would have been dis, near distinguishing, different types of left tanks, different bits of equipment that's been multiple for years. that is the route you know, after year war that were all, you know, kind of hobby amateur military experts, w corresponding new connelly with elise like he was always nic. thank you. or we go now to latvia, which has been providing a lot of support to ukraine. it also has a sizable russian speaking minority a legacy of the time when latvia was part of the soviet union. now they have been a target of the kremlin propaganda machine in a bid to undermine support for ukraine. our reporter killian buyer visited a town close to the russian border to see what impact kremlin propaganda is having platinum of the bud latvia along the russian border. many people here watch russians, they television via satellite and over the internet. and with that propaganda from russia, that again the dear friends at b t could drown the children, drown them with a wooded. yeah, that will be nuclear. all threats of war broadcast across the border from lot fios, much bigger neighbor russia. this worries maria, to beat sca one in for latvians has russian heritage and speaks russian. since the ukraine war started latvia has become even more polarized with it, and for exactly are losing our friends and our neighbors, that her son van propaganda is like poison that's dividing the people play the 66 year old on her sonia's have lots of russian friends russia tv is blocked here, but many people still managed to watch a lot of it, even before the russian invasion, the information war was well underway. russian media frequently broadcasts aggressive rhetoric about the e. u and nato. in a talk show on russian t. v. a military expert described step by step, how russia hypothetically could invade the baltic states. my spelling glasgow glitter vacant, any grad grouping of the russian army and bell russian forces the order from the ceiling. cut them off from the rest of the rotor that he looked at nobody more soldiers from the western military district, advanced him to his tanya, latvia, and lithuania, lakeview lippo nova. can you government for each country? let the national peoples republic of estonia at on scanned the national people's republic of latvia. anti lithuania, it is public store. many people in the eastern part of latvia look back fondly on their soviet passed, especially here along one of the main roads connecting riga to moscow, where some people feel left behind by democratic developments. were right in the center of music, not a small town, not far from the russian border, about half an hour drive and around half of the population, a bit less is russian speaking. we've come here to find out how many people here actually watch russia, television. i think are you happy with russian media? my dad, although live with very happy and the quality you think i have to leave almost just like these days. it's better not to answer questions like this. but as a russian, you're scared a voice in your opinion is there for me at the mouth with hatred? grampian? li i have i watch latvian tv. okay. there's propaganda on both sides. 32 years ago. this was all part of the soviet union. many people came here from other parts of the giant soviet empire to work, and then stayed to this day. maria insists that not everyone feels the same here. and she says that any one can be poisoned by television regardless of their nationality. she has given up discussing politics with many of her neighbors. like i think if we want to live in freedom, an artist, we do not want to be ruled by anyone here. if we have the right to live in self determination, that's very important. maria de beat scott is proud that lot via now belongs to the you and not to the soviet union as was once the case out here in the countryside. she enjoys her free time. just a short drive from the russian border. ah, the death toll from those earthquakes that struck turkey and syria earlier this week is now climb to almost 12000 rescue and recovery is a top priority and countries are rushing aid to the region. but for syria, the story is complicated. western sanctions were imposed on the regime in damascus because of the civil war there. that means cindy, 8 and equipment to the disaster zone is not so simple. syria has now requested assistance from the european union. the european commissioner for crisis management, young as leonard chic says that western sanctions are not standing in the way of cindy aid to syria. take a listen. that is nothing there that would hamper the believe, body of mccaden 8th and emergency assistance, especially not in situation which city and people find themselves of this that it was a quick. well, i spoke earlier with amar al samo from the volunteer organization to white helmets . and i asked him if he thinks that aid will reach syria despite the sanctions assumption as a also you know, that solution doesn't tend or he would need to enter into the city and was leaving the community receiving the or by it trying to load this with somebody of that number for going to can somebody of the war 2. and you can say a accountability and to claim that the community for not good, that gene is not the clearest it you want it to come under his control who steal the air and drive those who are outside is control from dated. that you and united nation organ and nobody can see at the beginning of the war, they were not able to live with this thought. it was a sport of them, but gene and of them i could mission white with many out of country know they deliver to the north was the city or the area that is affected more of that in the area as india. so we did not expect it to come from then that was even trying by and by this guy, this person, i don't know what i vision and steal a huge amount of the of the government is miss. i will let me, let me ask you, i, i understand there are 2 border crossings from turkey into northern to syria. one is controlled by the russians and the syrians. the other is controlled by turkey. can dictate, can you tell us to night, the crossing that turkey have to keep open? is that passable to now? is it possible to bring aid into northern syria with that crossing? yes, an a is coming from. took you through the number of sylvia and saw that it took you play in border control and coordination that went to the activity inside city. are you an agency based that goes out that box right now? they would, you know, i could nation just send just their bags. they also been made because of the image of the road. and that is not correct completely because just the stuff they and, and don't. and today with steve the, from the, from the coast, more than more than 300. did my city ended by me, the gun in that it would continue. so how, he's got a $1000.00 of each day that goes for 13 just today to give that on. they open who i got a who just more than with no need to know the liberal to sit here. so i want to be, i want to make sure that we understand correctly, you're saying even if the international community is able to bring an aid through syria or through turkey into syria, you're saying that the assad regime is basically stealing that aid. and it's not going to arrive where it's needed, most of that being, of course, in the province. no, the an are gonna throw that to the hoskis that or that a gene. it the, it will be feel. 2 that what i want to say, well, they've got to be the lives of from, took it look in the city. yeah. and it can be distributed combustion by that, the national organization. that again was amar al sambo, with the white helmets. or when it comes to saving people who are trapped by an earthquake, timing can be the difference between life and death. we take a look now it robotic equipment and drones designed to make it easier to locate and rescue people who were caught under the rubble in the race to save people trapped under rubble. laughter, disaster every minute counts. as time passes, the chances of survival drop and death tolls climb teams have to locate victims as quickly as possible in a shifting unstable landscape. a european and japanese project called cursor has developed a platform to reduce risk and new technology. here we are aiming to increase the safe at your 1st responders, providing remote access to their work psyche, motor working conditions. and secondly with technology. we are improving their, their speed of thought, the thickening victims. the cursor project seeks to streamline search and rescue by combining different technologies as elements in a single integrated system. for work on the ground, the researchers developed what they called soft miniaturized underground robotic finders for smurfs was nurse is this kind of robot here. ah, that is equipped with different cameras like r g b cameras to pieces or we have tama cameras. and we also have lights on so that we can takes us we're, we're into a collapse building and search for victims in the future, a clusters of the semi autonomous little robots could penetrate deep into collapsed buildings. outfitted with chemical noses that helped them sniff out survivors. as the smurfs rolled into the wreckage, they'll also receive information from sensors called geo phones, placed by emergency personnel to listen for survivors. they can detect sounds like regular tapping or voices in shallow rubble. activities extend into the sky with special drones hovering in the air above the disaster site. some are designed to map it in 3 dimensions. others carry ground penetrating radar to detect empty spaces and piles of rubble that might house survivors still. others are designed to carry and drops smurfs right where they're needed. and finally, there's a larger mothership drawn to coordinate activities between the different elements in the system. the platform still needs some work thou do it to the fact that we have such a complex said technologies and and different maturity of the technologies. then it's difficult to say whiten exactly least competence on the market. earthquakes like to one in turkey and syria, claim thousands of lives, but cursor and other search and rescue projects like it are working to make a difference one day for at least some of the victims trapped beneath the rubble. and i'm joined out by the project coordinator tina wrist may teen. it's good to have you on the program. this project of the technology with cursor is exactly what is needed right now in turkey and syria. are there, are there any drones or robots developed through cursor that are headed for the earthquake zone yet? no, unfortunately, not because we are working with prototypes. so this is a research project, and yes, we are. we are not so far. yes, to provide market rate. the product will talk to me about how, what's the project you know, is ready to be deployed? how will these drones be able to detect people that have been buried in the rubble after in earthquake? so we have different technologies for detecting guy was quick victims or, or gas explosion, victims, victims under collapse buildings basically. so we have the girls and year law, which indeed consists of several drones. ah, this drones are actually meant to get a door to you to be used to get quick information from the work site to understand how big is the damage to plant the resources to, to see what are the damages, are the building safe for 1st responder to enter the needs, this is the main main functionality for the drones. they have other sensors like them or cameras which also allowed to take the victims. but it depends on the weather and it depends on the building material, so decimal. we have also developed robots as nerves, so many of the rice underground drugs, which are, which i used did that the victims under the robin while the robots have different sensors bag audio video components. so we are, we are able to speak with victims that with people under the rubble. well, and the robots also have a so called artificial dog knows which allows us to detect victims by sniffing the air and detecting got specific routines that a human being saw imaging. wow. and never confirming other people inside or not. and even making up the sanchez and if the person is alive or that that, that it's amazing in i assumed that these smurfs needs robots would be on the front lines in a disaster. and they would even be sent in before we would send in dog. said we're usually send in to, to sniff l people, right? and they actually support the chance to talk somebody. greek and dogs will remain as a 3rd or, or not to acknowledge you, but solution that's just for the use. but dogs cannot go everywhere, and in some cases, it's even so dangerous that says it's not possible to over 10 talks and gas leaks or, or class in the roughly. so with these kinds of cases, we can use the robot which, which provides inflammation. if you want the thought on the line and see 2 before going out of time and just wanted to get your thought about this. and this seems to be a true story of cross border cooperation where you're bringing the best minds from across the european union together. i mean, it's a project that's really working. yeah. yeah, really, very, very bright collaboration. we have from europe 6 countries. we have collaboration with their knowledge and expertise about earthquakes. it's very, very relevant and has helped us a lot. and yes it's, it's a really collaborate to project cursor coordinator tina wrist may tina we appreciate you taking the time to talk with and to share with the world the exciting news about how this technology is coming together. thank you. thank you so much. ah. and finally, lebron james of the los angeles lakers has become the all time leader in career points in the national basketball association. james now has an astounding total of $38390.00 career points. are passing, feller laker? kareem abdul? jabbar star such as rapper g z were on hand in los angeles to witness history last night. every basket that le bron scores from now on means a new record and $40000.00 points could be within his grass. would during the entire game, james was mike w anticipation of the big moment. here's what he had to say on the emotional impact of this accomplished or right, the man in our reno, my shoe, every single night from theodore roosevelt. and to night i actually felt like i was like say known topic arena tonight. when i shall went in and the roar from the, from the crowd. i'm not sure if i'll be able to fill that film again. everything just stopped in you know, n damion opportunity just to kind of like, embrace it and look around and see him a family and seeing a fans and same a friends and of the day's almost done. the conversation continues a line. your plan is on twitter at d w. she can follow me on twitter at rent. gov tv and remember whatever happens between now and then tomorrow is another day. we'll see you then everybody with oh, love in times of war. oh, in ukraine. people are getting married malden ever the soon in view of the existential threats, marriage promises a modicum of safety. but for many relationships, more in flies are difficult. tests. focus on your next on d, w. in these glasses could take the world by storm, by making distant communication, feel more natural and dixon. founders are convinced they're developing the technology required. so for a our glasses to get their break through is the germans start up one step ahead of the i. t giant made in germany. in 60 minutes on d. w. ah. a action. interesting you month, right? 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