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i'm told me on logical welcome to the program ukrainian and us officials assigned an agreement providing washington with access to ukrainian miller, mineral deposits us as calling it a new form of us commitments to ukrainian sovereignty. trump ministration at long cushion for the deals. under terms that was seen as extortionate and key of now the us will gain access to ukraine's untapped reserves of raz titanium and other minerals vital to manufacturing, especially in the tech sector. you were meant also says ukraine will not have to compensate the us for me to treat aid as dw use general to milan and washington what the 2 sides have agreed on. it's essentially, as you said, this is a deal that would give the west preferential access to the rare earth minerals that

ukraine has. this is a deal that sees the creation of a joint investment fund a between the 2 countries which uh, which the 2 countries are meant to contribute to equally. so what do you crane has to do is that it has to take 50 percent of the revenues that it collects from the licensing of new natural resource projects in the country and put it in the fund. as for the americans, any sort of future assistance that they give to ukraine, counts as a contribution to that fund. so the money in that fund will then be used for investing in ukraine's rear or mineral sector. and that revenue is meant to be split up equally between the 2 countries. the governance of this project is also meant to be equal, as well, with 3 board members coming from the us and 3 board members coming from the ukraine . so a long contentious process has resulted in this agreement

a new moment before you create that us relations relations that have certainly seen their fair share of challenges. yeah, um we're seeing what the us once, but i mean, ukraine obviously has this priority for, for, for peace. so what are the security guarantees that the ukrainians can bank on? so yes, so we know that the lens did push very hard for a security guarantees. he needed something to hold onto that would keep russia from invading it again or to keep a rush hour respecting any ceasefire agreement that would come to place. now this tax does not really have any explicit mention of a security guarantee, but there is some encouraging language in there for the ukrainians, included among the objectives. if i may, quote, a broader strategic alignment between peoples and governments with a tangible demonstration of us support for ukraine,

security and integration into global economic frameworks. now, like i said, that's encouraging for ukraine. let's recall that the whole reason that they're doing this in the 1st place is that they're hoping that a deeper economic relationship with us will keep the u. s. a. engaged in supporting them as uh, in the past months where there has been reason to doubt the level of us support. so ukrainians, clearly deciding that that language that is included in the text is enough for them, at least for now. and uh, just tell us what is different this time we've seen the back and forth we, we saw obviously the dispatch between the land skin and trump in, in the oval office. what is what's unique about this particular deal? so yeah, so we already said earlier that so the future contributions, the future assistance of america towards ukraine that would count towards the

american share in the fund where a so previous iterations of video sort of sought to re package any assistance already given to ukraine as a debt to be repaid, we know that zelinski did not go for that. we also know that in previous iterations of the deal, ukraine would have had to give up the revenues from uh, it's rare earth minerals from its oil and gas from ports and infrastructure. we were talking something around the area of $500000000000.00. so, but according to this saw this current agreement, ukraine would still be able to maintain control of its natural resources. and there's also nothing in there. for example, that is also blocking ukraine's path to a membership that was something that was included in previous drafts. so there were clearly a lot of changes that were made in the space of just a few weeks. both sides hoping at least for a win win on some level,

dw correspondent, janelle de milan in washington. thank you for that. let's take a look now at some of the stories making headlines around the world. the t nation project to, to develop a fusion power has completed components for the walls, largest pulse magnets when assembled in front of the magnet will be powerful enough to lift an ad across the carrier. but its purpose is actually to compress and insulate control fusion reaction which scientists hope will alleviate the world. energy was sees where the firefighters are battling wildfires on the outskirts of jerusalem. lasers of force, the closure of a key highway from kind of even force people to abandon the vehicles nearby residents have been moved to safety. just prime minister said it lead and croatia sending 5 fighting across 2 months after it won the german election. the center i

c d, u has formed of a as agreed by relo succeeded in forming a coalition government with a sense of left s p d sd has now officially agreed to back a conservative med government in this class. the way for conservative lead to finish, and that's to become germany's next counsellor. on may. 6th 40 us judge has released a prominent student active as detained by immigration authorities. most and most dally, lead protests over guys or at columbia university is arrested while at the us citizenship interview. the government can appeal to release, but the federal judge said must though each time leave his home state of vermont to attend graduation. next month, the israel says it's carried out and made it very striking to have the syrian capital damascus targeting what it calls an extremist group that is attacked. members of the drew's community, dozens of people have been killed and secretary and flashes and recent days,

and drews fighters of stepped up the presence. syria is rebel, lead. government has deployed its forces and says it will protect all minority groups. days of sectarian violence in the southern southern of the syrian capital. the classes between um to sony gunman, andrew sizes have left residents living in sierra and i'm trying to get the weight of freight because the optimal gang i saw about how ya, let's see. let's go to that home and gone nation. i mean, of course, and that's right because there's nothing to tell them to tell you. i got busy but at the bottom type. even the classes began on tuesday in the mostly drew's town of jo romano. and later of spread to sonata near the capital, damascus, the violence was ignited by a voice recording. crossing the islamic prophet mohammed sony militants accused of

drew's cleric of making the recording, which he denied the drew's hour an hour minority who practice a religion derived initially from islam. i. there are around 1000000 drew's worldwide with more than hoss living in syria. i'm to drew's gunman have now stepped up that presence on the streets, evacuating students from the affected areas. who am i gonna charge me? time? i've ever federal tax on choose villages. and there is a way to put the recycling for job amount of websites in the city. yes or no? no, no, we're not site. the civic to set up on whichever manner is savannah. most our nation, you work on israel has stepped into the conflict. it's carried out what it called a warning strike in syria against an extremist group prepared to attack the drew's community, which also has members living. and israel syrian security forces have also stepped up their presence within the re enter the area, a part of a quest, some civilians,

and due to the to as well. so that process really i see that external or internal actors and who are outside the state to control. so we enter the area to enforce our subjects and can set that up in the, the sectarian violence. and israel is intervention present, a challenge to the is limit so far it easy to over through long time rules by shot, all outside in december. then you rebel, the government has place to defend all minority groups. georgia will cover your ro is it may at least list on the seo and founder of golf state analytics asked him about the connection between israel andrews. so i think everyone is well aware that there are certainly on serious tensions between different communities in syria. and there are minority groups, including the drew's who are very uncomfortable right now in the post or side

period with the current government in damascus. very fearful of their future, but we need to understand what israel is doing is exploiting these tensions between different siri in groups. the is really, as has been very clear that their goal is to keep, is, were to keep syria fragmented, and they want syria to be weak and divided is really openly lobby for this in washington. and so while israel is pushing this narrative, that it is a defender of the druids minority and syria is very cynical. israel is attempting to fragment balkanized, syria, us secretary of state, mocker robeto's, told pakistan's prime minister to condemn last week's deadly attack in india and administered kashmir. will be a judge of us here if to cooperate with india and investigating the massacre of $26.00 tourist and the dispute in territory. india blazed pakistan for the kings,

but is level by the denies involvement. fears of a war between the 2 nuclear armed neighbors, ongoing india is now closed. it's as base to buy just on the plains. and pakistan says it has evidence of indian plans for a military assault. has pensions between india and pakistan. rise. the human impact deepens. people living on both sides of the border have had the visas cancelled, forced to opposite that lives by situation beyond that control. so that is a pack us down a married to an indian sheet and 10 newborn baby. and now being forced back to talk a stem, your thirties told me on ega. just leave i just gave birth to my son is 14 days old . i had to get a c section operation done. i'm not supposed to travel because my stitches were only removed last night. my uncle, a 17 year old mohammed was in india some medical treatment, hoping to gain some use if his legs. he returned to pack us down with his pack us

downy father, but not his indian mother. met that eliza will be mine, paralyzed. i went to india, we thought that i was going in a wheelchair but would return on my own seats. but that hope's being broken by them mother l mazda went along with us. but the indian also already told us that indian passport holders are not allowed to cross when they stopped here at the border and with identity. the customer of the tech risks, reopening old wounds, politicians in india want action. it is pretty clear who is responsible for this. the people who are responsible for this must be a price. the prime minister must not deliberately, must not waste. time must make it very clear that india is not going to tolerate this type of nonsense. so we need select politicians,

impact us down a vowing to defend their country. but it has never been the best of both. your son has never done publication, but when it comes to defending the homes in august on the defend bought this done business born effectively decisively and a short b for with the rhetoric, somebody deli and as i'm about becoming increasingly politicos, those stuck in the middle can only hope to the head cause i and you're watching these up news here as a reminder of our top story. ukrainian and us officials assigned along the way to the agreement, providing washington with access to your claim in mineral deposits. us calling into new for us commitments to your dream and sovereignty half time full, but coming up next on documentary looks at how and automation could eliminate large

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