the watching al jazeera and these are the top stories. the sour ukraine s president says he s taking powerful steps to root out corruption and government. the deputy defense minister is among several others who have resigned or removed following craft allegations. president zalinski says there ll be 0 tolliver tolerance for corrupt officials. natasha butler has more from cave. now what the modem is, lensky is obviously trying to do. is show western powers that are pouring in aid and military aiden financial help to ukraine, that keith is taking this sort of thing very seriously indeed. and that that aid and money is being used for the right reasons and not being siphoned off by some government officials. of course, cleaning up corruption is one of the conditions all say for ukraine to do if it wants to be part of the european union. and we know that steps are already underway for ukraine to accede to the block. nato secretary general john tin stalsen burger s meeting with ger