To ukraine. France, germany, iceland, italy, to ukraine. France, germany, iceland, italy, latvia, to ukraine. France, germany,| iceland, italy, latvia, lithuania luxembourg, the netherlands, norway, poland, and the united kingdom, they have all stepped up to leave the Capability Coalition and to commit resources and personnel to this critical task stepped up to lead. This is a testimony to the resolve and unity at Ramstein Today and we stand by ukraine because it is the right thing to do. And because america cares when freedom is at risk. But we also stand by ukraine because it is crucial to our own security and the us would face grave new perils in a world where aggression and autocracy are on the march and where tyrants are emboldened and where dictators think they can wipe out democracy off the map. So when we invest in the security of ukraine, we invest in our own security. And we strengthen this shared vision of an open world of rules and rights and responsibilities. Today, ukrain
hello and welcome to bbc news. ukraine says it will keep pushing to be supplied with modern tanks, after a meeting of allied nations in germany ended without an agreement to provide them. protests have taken place in berlin to demand the approval of german made tanks to be sent to kyiv. aruna iyengar has this report. this is what kyiv wants but can t yet have. german made leopard 2 tanks as part of hopes for hundreds of western battle tanks to help defend their country and take back their land. ukraine says modern tanks are key to holding back russia s expansion plans. translation: the partners are firm in their attitude. they will support ukraine as much as necessary for our victory. yes, we will still have to fight for the supply of modern tanks, but every day we make it more obvious there is no alternative to making the decision on tanks. president zelensky has made his appeal to this meeting of defence chiefs at ramstein airbase. poland has agreed to train ukrainian soldi
warfare does notjust mean in stabilising the front line. actually, we are very grateful to our allies for their military support that we have received so far because, thanks to that support, we were able to stabilise the front line, we were able to stop the enemy from advancing, and we were able to even drive the enemy out of certain areas. but of course right now, for us to be able to defend our land, needs to be able to liberate our territories, and for this we need heavy tanks and armoured vehicles, and from this perspective, the ramstein today was very successful, and this is something that our minister of defence said today. but at the same time, it could have been even more successful because look, this was ramstein number eight and at the same time, for example, ukraine has been already the target of 12 massive missile attacks so we need to be as a coalition of free nations, we need to be one or a
brutal haqqani network linked to al qaeda this following taliban assaults against women protesters again today. the events of the last few days indicate that we are we are dealing very much with the same old taliban what does that do to the president s rationale for withdrawing our u.s. troops the mission of trying to prevent afghanistan from becoming a safe haven for terrorism has failed reporter: at ramstein today, secretary of state blinken saying the u.s. relationship with the taliban will depend on their actions, but he was challenged by an afghan journalist. journalists are beaten, women protesters on the streets are beaten what else do you want to see planning for another 9/11 we will see by its actions whether it corrects course. reporter: michael leiter directed the national counterterrorism center under presidents bush and obama.