correspondent, julius of delhi, and on location in madrid, covering that summit for us is our brussels bureau chief, alexandra fun, nomine. first of all, alexandra, talk to me about what we just heard from chance were schoultz. he outlined a number of military contributions that germany wants to make to nato all. was there anything new there? what, what does he offering? yes, i think it was quite notable how precise the german council was there talking about the german contribution to nato high readiness units. as you know, natal has from us to a booster there. i read annette s readiness units from 40002300000 soldiers. and i was a bit surprised to see how precise the german chancellor here was. he said that germany is ready to add to contribute with their tang could division with 15000 soldiers, air, regional navy commands, and 60 aircraft and 20 naval units. so we got those numbers, and i think it s quite remarkable that did their chancellor announce their them in this pres
w p to be friends and family rallying support. plus public gatherings, band and internet access walked the latest efforts to quell unrest in india, muslims post of killing a hindu man and sectarian tensions are on the rise. ah . hello, i m clear. richardson, thanks so much for joining us. nato leaders have ended a 3 day summit where they pledge to continue supporting ukraine. the last day of the madrid meeting also focused on the global food crisis, made leaders blamed russia were rising gas and food prices, and reiterated their mutual defense commitments. while u. s. president joe biden also announced an additional $800000000.00 in aid for ukraine. he said stopping rushes, advanced is critical for global security. before the war started, i told put in that if you very ukraine, nato would not only get stronger, but would get more united. and we would, she would say democracy in the world stand up in opposes aggression and defend the rules based order. that s exactly what we r
news conference was scheduled for then. do we know what s delayed him and what can we expect him to say today? well normally of course you would be right saying that nato is always on time with the secretary general, always being on time for his press conference. his however, we are talking here about some, it s a meeting a we re all the natal leaders, have a chance to talk and to be together. so it s not very surprising that we have a slight delay. now there are different bilateral meeting still going on at the last a session was about food insecurity. a very important topic. so may be, dad is a reason for the late press conference, but we are expecting it to begin soon because of course this will be just one of many, many conferences that will be held here in madrid by nato leaders that we heard yesterday already are some major announcements coming out of nato with its new strategic concept. it s overhauled this key policy document for the 1st time in 12 years. nater saying
russia abandoned the strategic island that it took from ukraine at the start of the war, handing back snake island in the black sea. after months of heavy fighting. and in sudan deadly street, protests, people are refusing to stop demonstrating against the military leaders of the country. leaders who took over 8 months ago. ah, i break off is good to have you with this. and we begin this thursday with the changes at nato and a changing security reality. today, native leaders wrapped up their annual summit by taking a tougher line on russia, made a presented a new strategic plan, which includes more unity than we ve seen in recent years. and it is pledging further humanitarian and military support for ukraine, for as long as it takes. we also learned today that it is official, nato is expanding by inviting finland and sweden to join the alliance. pomp and pageantry in madrid. the does of the 30 nato member states have tightened ranks against russia and the attack on one is att