the the, this is the w news, long awaited military aid is headed to ukraine. us president joe biden says weapons shipments will start within hours of the science, a multi $1000000000.08 bill after funds. congressional grid lock plus us secretary of state entity blinking is in china pushing for better ties between washington and beijing. talks are expected to be tough with chinese support for russia at the top of the agenda and riot police on campus. and texas students step up profiles to me and protests that colleges across the united states. hundreds have been arrested

the mommy and he says, welcome to the program. us president joe biden has signed a bill into law authorizing billions of dollars in military aid for ukraine. a day earlier, lawmakers gave the final green light to the $61000000000.00 package and the a month long stand off and congress by and says supplies will soon be on their way . so i'm making sure the shipment start right away. the next few hours really be 2 hours from equipment to ukraine, for air, defense, munitions, for artillery, for rocket systems and armor vehicles. you know, this package is literally an invest, not only in your brand new credit, but in yours, in our own security. now,

while the 1st official shipment of that 8 is set to arrive in the next hours or days, us officials have confirmed that ukraine has begun using long range missiles secretly shift in recent weeks. as part of a previous a package. they say the missiles were used for the 1st time and a strike on a russian airfield and crimea last week. the are the army tactical missile system, or atkins, was part of a $300000000.00 assistance package approved by the united states in march. us supplied mid range version of that system. last september. this latest batch construct targets up to 300 kilometers away. the printing government says the us aid is urgent. hundreds of thousands of ukrainians have been called up to fight on the front line since russia launched its invasion over 2 years ago. many have not returned, dw spoke to a mother whose family has paid a high price. natalie as that nick had 3 sons when russia launched its full

scale invasion of ukraine. this is my son who says my youngest son, the last summer natalia buried her youngest or lexi. he served in some of the bloodiest bottles of the will. look through my number. my youngest was installed a dog. after solid, he was in bus, moved up to box, moved to his in has on the phone. he didn't see the fence he was near on to leave can has on your thumb. there's a country village called antonio sca when he was killed there for the day of alexys death, natalia tried to convince him to leave the army. he feared he'd share the same fate as her eldest son said he, he would just being reported missing. middle son, audrey is also listed as missing. natalia hopes, the oldest sons are a light, but let's be no confirmation. she likes to remember them as they appear in these photos for me, specialist and this is my eldest sunset. he this is my andrew shaw. this is all you

a little, they were happy who my boys can do everything but a cooking and baking, and sidney or what do you but they grew up well and that's what they grew up together. i have boys to read the lawsuit and the 2 or 3 of them graduated from music school. when the queen telling will defend the school. the super controller natalia is supported by her daughters in new orlando and alicia, they call her mother to stay on the board. but i am supplement as low as we tried to call whenever possible to ask her mom is doing. i have places that she comes to us sits with her grandchildren. my mother is also retired, but it says no one. you only have one more 2 to 3 s month to come and she does or since that husbands disappeared, orlando and or less. yeah. are in constant contacts, trying to find out what happened to them on the run. it just doesn't seem to have gets bad. no one gives us any official confirmation or less. yeah. and i would like

to us together to the security service of ukraine. elizabeth, now we constantly received the same on so that the russian side does not provide any information. there is no confirmation of any kind of watching them on the truck for natalia as, as the lack of information is unbearable, but she hasn't lost hope that she'll one day be able to help her sons again. we are going school the clock, can i say honestly, i tried to smile and not show my emotions over. i take few or walk so that no one asks what's going on. if they do, my head starts to her and i run away. i don't want to be seen to go to customer, but ukraine security is set to be a hot topic for us. secretary of state anthony blinking during talks and china lincoln wants to stabilize ties and vision, but also to ramp up pressure over its close relationship with russia. washington, it uses china of helping moscow with its invasion of ukraine,

which it denies. engine a blinking visit comes at a challenging time for china. us relations, surprising in shanghai. he posted this videos on building bridges and of course we'll be dealing with areas where we have real differences. we're dealing with them directly communicating clearly face to face as long as he met some important for avoiding miscommunications, misperceptions, and to advance the interest of the american people. as well as building his own bridges. lincoln will be trying to steer china away from russia, accusing staging or backing most goes more and ukraine. china continues to provide materials to support structures defense, industrial base, and all of this is fueling pollutants warm machine as he attacks ukrainians and threatens europeans, security. china insist it remain neutral to inform you what china has always

controlled the export of jew use items in accordance with laws and regulations, relevant country should not some year end attack. what's her normal state to state relations between china and russia? it's not just the war and ukraine that's causing strain. the discovery of a chinese by balloon and us skies last year added to team sions. along with us support for tie one. with 3 days of talks and shanghai and beijing lincoln has his work cut out smoothing relations between the super powers columbia university in new york has extended the deadline for pro palestinian student protesters to clear the campus by 48 hours police of warrant they will clear the camp by force of the demonstrators don't leave voluntarily protests against the war and cause i have spread to universities. across the united states,

several colleges have closed campuses and hundreds of students have been arrested as us speaker of the house, mike johnson visited columbia as campus on wednesday. here's what he had to say. my message to the students inside the encampment, did it go back to class and stopped the nonsense there. look, if we want to have a debate on campus about the merits of these things. let's do that. but you can't intimidate your, your fellow students and make them stay home from class. think about that, is that right? do you think that's right? stop wasting your parents money. congressman lawler says, i think that's right. dw correspondent benjamin alvarez gruber is at the columbia campus. i asked him earlier if there's public support for the protests there, it depends on who you ask and in the in that and what do we have just heard there from the speaker of the house. you could hear some of the protest is it also gathered to the steps where he was giving a this statement, after meeting with students and faculty members here is shouting and also

protesting against this visit to our son. this should have been cleared a long while ago. we know that negotiations are still in going between the office of the president of columbia university. and the organizers here tension was quite hard. yesterday night we heard a chopper over flying also university. it will protest until $1.00 and 2 am. that was the initial deadline that the office of the president of columbia university set. but we know that negotiations are still a go in, and we need to have to see now how this will unfold, how the discussions will unfold. because students have said they will continue here until their demands are meant by a columbia university. well, they have another day at least now. so what is the situation there among protesters that the camp of the so the tents are still here, we have an e mail that was sent out by the office of the president of columbia university. after 4 am showing that this negotiations are ongoing. they gave a quick press briefing saying that they still have a those demand. so once i divesting all of the investments that the university has

with a company that they take profit from israel's war in gaza, also they want more transparency, pull the university, the administration to tell them where this investments are. and they also ask for amnesty for the students, but also from the faculty members who face administrative and they yeah. where they actually had a some complications. they are in sanctions for a there will protesting here when a and why p d. when new york police department came in last week arrested more than 100, some of them were placed also on leave. so they want them to be reinstated and called, and they said that half the month that they are clear. but now the question is, if they will find an agreement and how that agreement will look like us, we see more and more of these protesters and colleges across the us. okay, so the anger's focus said administrations, they're on the campuses. what are the wider remo political ramifications of these protests we just saw, the speaker of the house, mike johnson, rallying his base,

their trump has, has also pitched in even bite and called the protest anti semitic. so what are we seeing here on the selection here? this is definitely a nationwide top and you just mentioned the white house. we also have the secretary of education. well wait in your say a that and what do you see on campus is a, it's a disgrace. the wide, how's the press release that they send out saying that anti semitism has no space, not only in any college across the country, but also anywhere. and as we are also the concerns of do a students, but also a faculty members, robbie close to the university even told us as students to stay away it but they are, it's important to make a difference between the protest this protesting inside the university, but also also when we came here earlier today, we were hearing a some tens. also some people were here as saying and rejecting a 2 state solution quite different to the chance that we're here inside. but we can imagine that this will still develop as we see more and more universities. more of

this protests also happening across the country. dw correspondent benjamin alvarez group are in columbia university. thank you. let's take a look now, some of the other stories making headlines around the world, arizona's house of representatives has voted to repeal in near total ban on abortion in the states supreme court ruled earlier this month that authorities could enforce the band that dates from 1864, the measure will now go to arizona as republican controlled senate is really military says it has attacked thousands of targets in southern lebanon. belonging to the run back militia has the law in retaliation for rockets fired over the border. israel's defense minister, you of gallano, claim that half of as well as commanders in the area have been killed. in this latest round, a friday to rental rainfall has caused severe flooding. antonia dozens of people have been killed since the rains began last month in the capital

nairobi entire neighborhoods are underwater and thousands have fled their homes to seek shelter of the weeks. a relentless down pores have caused misery and narrow b rescue teams have managed to move some residents to safety. me and my do doesn't arrive in my brother who are on top of on top of the dining, my g. i'm from morning to 11 pm in the cities, poor neighborhoods. high water had devastating effect. material used to build shelter, washed away by the floods. want suffering. i need to sell them to get things done. where are they going?

we don't know. we have to begin. we need food to feed our children and clothes to we are utensils are washed away homes filled with mud t lucky some people, even most of the rules we stranded and don't know what to do next, we'd desperately need help authorities or warning residents of heavy to very heavy rainfall made worse by an el nino weather pattern all the way until may with rain and thunder storms. forecast to continue through the weekend. and i, rubies floods are likely to get even worse. several people have been injured in central london after 5 military horses random walk at rush hour. this video shows 2 of the horses galloping through the streets. the white horse covered in what appears to be blood. and they were apparently stopped by noise from

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