[000:00:00;00] ah ah, this is d w. news live from berlin. russian bombs continue to fall on the ukrainian city of mary paul, president. a lot of may zalinski says there is nothing left out of one of his country's largest cities and calls for direct talks with vladimir. also coming up finland border with russia is 1300 kilometers long invasion of ukraine has many fins wondering what other lines moscow is willing to cross paths. situation is

really worrying because not only price. the next thing we're talking about is availability. concern in kenya about how the war will effect weight imports from russia and ukraine. ah, i'm rebecca writ is welcome to the program. well, after nearly a month of war in ukraine, russian forces are still struggling to take case cities, ukrainian forces, say they've pushed back russian troops from a k suburb of keith. further slowing russia's assault on the capital. meanwhile, authorities in the strategic port city of mary, you, paul say, fighting is raging on the straits amid russian bombardment. he trans president says nothing is left of the city where tens of thousands of civilians remained trapped. yet more palms falling on the besieged city of mario paul,

russian forces had been trying to take the key port for weeks civilians. lucky enough to escape to live if say conditions in the city, a desperate to them you did. you hear the liberal of mario paul aren't being held. i'm speaking with that elite of help. or you can, you can limit people don't have water, the drink water that's not even fit for industrial purposes. as no one you can ask for help. yoga kia, another major cities have also been the targets of increase shelling with russia ramping up. it's bombardment as its troops struggle to advance on the ground on tuesday, present, zalinski urge italian lawmakers to help force russia to negotiating table. olive says, thought maybe they may, asian has been going on for $27.00 days, practically one month. so we need even more sanctions, even more pressure, so that russia stops looking for more military reserves or mercenary, somewhere in syria or libya and starts looking for peace. so what is your full

color with? with more and more ukrainian cities being reduced to ruins like here and how keith remains to be seen. what a piece deal would even look like. so lensky has said that keith is prepared to talk about the states crimea, and the separatist on bass region after a ceasefire. but any agreement it would have to be put to a vote by the ukrainian people. but for many of them, including one of the residents of these bombed out flats, no hockey region, their relationship with russia has been changed for ever water. no one be, was done with this. what was wrong when it will have relatives who live over there? but there it stops, so the russians will never be our brothers again. along with it, brought in m, the war is causing security concerns in finland. the country shares a 1300 kilometer border with russia. and while relations with moscow has been amicable in recent decades, the invasion of ukraine is causing many fins to reconsider their neutrality and support joining nato. they

w correspondent terry schultz sent us this report. the kremlin has crossed many lines in past weeks. fins are increasingly concerned about this one, there, 1300 kilometer border with russia at the volley. my checkpoint. vigilance is the norm that captain, you see petula says apart from a small number of people seeking refuge in finland, there's been no other impact from the war yet. of course, we are prepared and we are preparing also for many kind of situation since have always lived with some degree of uncertainty sharing this long border with russia. but president vladimir putin's unprovoked attack on a sovereign neighbor has forced them to reassess. how far do the kremlin territorial ambitions go? where do they stop finland's delicate geostrategic balance? a civil relationship with moscow plus a well equipped, highly trained military has been shaken suddenly and for the 1st time,

a majority of fins believe they need nato. the turn about is a reaction to russia's aggression says defense minister, auntie chi gonan. be able, have thought that we would live in a peacetime into, into twenties, but now we have factored. i was in the middle of europe, but so far from finland. russia's assault has re ignited painful memories of the soviet invasion of finland in world war 2. just like its attack on ukraine. back then, moscow said it was responding to provocation. finns maintained their independence at huge cost. fighting alone, the experience led the country to become self reliant for its national security. with each adult trained to play a specific role in any emergency from natural disasters to weather events, to war. themes are not as scared as such, but they are aware, reservist training and public self defense courses have seen

a huge jumping enrollment past 2 weeks. 215 new member has we haven't seen anything like that before. people want to survive a now it's time to time to learn. things are moving fast. next month, the finish government will update its national security assessment and is widely expected to take a stance on nato membership. the kremlin has warned helsinki that joining the alliance would bring serious consequences. hybrid threat expert, hannah's smith says there are already signs of russian attempts to stir up conflict with. we have seen, for example, that there is now both in sweden and finland. a twitter from a embassy has come to ask any russian citizens to report to the embassies any wrong doing against them. given this environment, henry vaughan in a parliamentary advisor says nieto is a necessity. if we don't join in, we have to find the reasoning. why sort of what is the back for, for our security in the future as well? we are, are close international defense, cobra should be enough,

would be you be enough. we don't low but knowing their own history and seeing ukraine's bleak future. most fins are now no longer willing to risk their own outside nato. a has a look at some other developments in the conflict. now. russian investigators have launched a criminal case against journalist alexander never sort of after he accused the army of deliberately shelling of maternity hospital in the ukrainian city of mary paul. minnesota is the 1st prominent journalist to fall foul of new legislation, ban and criticism of russia's war and new crime. russian winner of the 2021 nobel peace prize says hill auction off the prestigious metal, and donate the proceeds to help you crying in refugees. dmitri murray, tom was the co winner of the prize for his work as editor of no via gazette, up, one of russia's last independent newspapers to yachts owned by russian oligarch, roman abramoff,

which have docked in turkey in an attempt to avoid european sanctions on russia's super rich group of you can't cranium demonstrate, has tried to prevent one of the vessels from warring in the turkish port. woodrum turkey has criticized russia's invasion of ukraine. bart rejects sanctions jailed russian opposition leader alexander valley has been sentenced to 9 more years in prison. after court found him guilty on charges of large scale fraud. the valley was already serving a 2 and a half years sentence for alleged parole violations. he's been a vocal critic of russian president vladimir putin, a substantial evidence that the kremlin was responsible for poisoning him in 2020, and an incident that nearly killed him after recovering in berlin valley was arrested upon his return to russia. his tame has been posting his messages hauling on the russian people to protest de country's invasion of you crime it. crimes

president va laudermill zalinski says the war in ukraine could prompt famine in other parts of the world. salenti warned that russian attacks, preventing farmers from sewing crops and blocking ships from leaving ukraine's ports. ukraine is one of the world's biggest produces of weight. the effects of the conflict are already being felt. every morning this stall in kenya's capital nairobi, baker. chuck patty fled bread out of wheat flour. it's a typical oak breakfast, but customers can barely afford it any more. say, nicholas, because it's gotten more expensive. i have to pay double the price. now he, my life has gotten extremely expensive. yoga monkey dumble, samuel masa runs the small bakery with 4 employees, the cost of wheat flour and sunflower. oil has been rising for a while. but now he fears it's getting even worse, driven by rushes swan ukraine. what did you do like, what did you were following the war?

because we need to know what's happening to come or to not to me or be that some other products which we use come from both those countries. we looked at that here, do the whole world is worried. lay your hope. in kenya around a 3rd of imported we'd comes from russia and ukraine. the global market price for the grain has already increased massively. that's also being felt by this company that makes love. so supermarkets, the worry is that the global supply will shrink. prices will rise further and poor countries will barely be able to afford wheat. the situation is a really worrying up because not only price. the next thing we're talking about is availability um world ready? seeing a lot of our suppliers pulling out force, missouri cards on contracts. but there's one country with vast reserves. china analysts estimate it has around half of the world, stocks in its warehouses. it's intended to ensure enough food for its own

population, but the fears that china could exploit the global situation, geopolitically yakima, cuz the ivan, china has enough reserves to also be able to support certain poorer countries in africa with supplies. it leads me to leave forms on districts. the communist party realizes this gives them leverage to be able to expand the influence there. well, in i flows of, i'd are china has been expanding its involvement on the continent. it's building roads, ports and train routes like he and kenya. it also provides loans to african states in return and gets accessed to africa, abundance of natural resources and its markets. now, africa dependence on china looked set to increase his it up. now some of the other stories were following this. our a man wielding a knife has killed 4 people and seriously wounded to others in the southern israeli town of basheba. a silent was shot and killed by unidentified bystanders. israeli

media identified the attacker as a 34 year old arab man from the nearby bedouin town of huda. if you want to, 4 people have died in a boating accident. off the coast of new zealand. 5 other passengers were rescued from the wreckage. the chart and fishing vessels sunk in stormy weather on sunday night survive is clung to the wreckage the hours before they were found. divers, a searching for one missing person. over here in germany. corona virus cases are at record levels, even as the country begins phasing out the last of its restrictions nationwide. the world health organization says germany is one of several european nations have been to rash and scrapping restrictions only to say arise in infections including among health care workers. i be very, it's not the hectic day at this clinic in the german city of hanover. the workload keeps growing, but the number of doctors and nurses is shrinking. many are off sick with copious

19. 0, it's having the impact on every areas of hospital. as a result, we count off of beds to all the patient, so need them. and some plan procedures are having to be cancelled. medical style shortages also mean entire weeks without any scheduled operations. around 75 percent of german hospitals are currently unable to offer their full range of services or e peasant allows phillips, staff shortages affect the entire hospital across every ward. the preference of us was. this is also happening at a time when we are experiencing maximum occupancy. has to be opposite. we have more covina patients in our regular wards than ever before, often or mile shots on even on the up and across germany. about 24000 patients are currently in hospital with copays 19. many are only diagnosed after being admitted . but every case means more work more p. p. e will. pandemic stress,

which has partly shifted from intensive care woods to the regular ones. you know that we have a considerable number of coating on team passions on the non awards, who are seriously ill. i would really so it's not just a simple cold, as some people claim, if he was active not from the cove at 19 crisis, keeps on changing. and this is especially evident in hospitals where it's also clear that it's far from over. in watching day w, news has a recap. all of our top story. russia's efforts to occupy the key ukrainian port of barrier poll continue with bombs, striking and industrial compound. resident zalinski now says there is nothing left of the city ukrainian forces resisting russians attempts to take the capital cave rising fears that russia will escalate. the war to new hives attorneys update this alex, they w documentary, looking at mafia on the high seas is coming up after a short break. i'm rebecca,

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