ah ah ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin. peace talks between russia and ukraine, move the needle, but don't end the war. russia says it will reduce military activity around the ukrainian capital, keith, but warrens. this is not a cease fire, nor a retreat. also coming up, a gunman opens fire in israel before being shot dead of these 5 people have been killed in a television suburb, the latest in a state of deadly attacks. the government is calling for caution.

ah, am abby cor boston welcome to the program? russia as pledge to reduce military operations around the ukrainian capital, keith has been met with skepticism by the united states and ukraine. they say moscow is just repositioning troops and not withdrawing russian forces had already been pushed back from air pin a suburb of the capitol, leaving behind ruins and the bodies of dead civilians. washington warned that moscow could now be preparing for a major offensive elsewhere rash. as pledge to reduce its operations around to ukrainian cities came after peace talks between russian and ukrainian delegations, and istanbul. ukraine has proposed that it is willing to permanently neutral but says it requires security guarantees from

a group of nations. another round of peace talks, but this time with 1st signs of progress is ukraine opens up to discuss, adopting a neutral status. russia promised to scale down operations, but it is the russian defense ministry has made the important decision to decrease military activity. several fold it in the direction of keith and churn, to his to increase mutual trust and create the necessary conditions for further negotiations. negotiations that will be needed to increase trust, but in action and not in words, ukraine's presidents stressed talk more than those of other. yes, we can say that the signals we hear from the talks are positive. i'll it. but the signals can't silence the explosions from russian challenge. seasonal. of course, we see all of the risks though, and of course life we don't see ground to trust the words coming from representatives of the country that continues trying to destroy us over your body

that are the nozzle. lisa rushes, announcement was also met with skepticism in washington, but i think we should be clear eyed about the reality of what's happening on the ground and no one should be fooled by russia's announcements. we believe any movement of forces for around cave is a re deployment and not a withdrawal. and the role should be prepared for a major offensive against other areas of ukraine. offensive that in the future should be stopped by other countries acting as security guard tours. an idea that keith proposed in exchange for neutrality and in place of nato membership as peace talks, gain momentum. there is now also another possibility on the horizon. a high level meeting between both presidents at brandy w correspondent, mathias bellinger, who joins us from the ukrainian capital. keith mathias, the ukranian delegation, has made a peace proposal. what security assurances are they asking for exactly ah,

basically what they have said is that these security guarantees should be stronger than what the night nato countries have agreed on in article 5. which means that they expect countries to declare that they would be ready to step in if the country was attacked. and that's what one advisor has said. other official sources have a talk more about the possibility to procure or to provide weapons to ukraine. so basically the idea would be $245.00 ukraine in a way that it could really be not a member of nature, but be armed so much that it would be very difficult to attack it and pop last possibly. i mean, it's of different sources, different saying different things, but possibly even the guarantee that other countries, even though not through the mechanisms of nato,

would step in the case of an attack. and he has russia says it will drastically reduce its military activity near to ukraine's daily cities, including the capital. is there a sense in keep where you are that moscow is retreating or simply looking to regroup? if anything selling in the suburbs have the only intensified in the past 24 hours, where he explosions quite often now and it does not look that fighting activity has been reduced. of course, by the sound we cannot judge who has been shooting how many ro rounds. we know that the him president vladimir lansky has been asking for direct talks with vladimir putin for some time. russia now says this may soon be possible. what more can you tell us about that? wo the idea that the ukrainian president has brought forward was that the jews presidents would discuss the situation and on boss or the future often bustle this

region. that is, has been divided between the 2 defacto divided between the 2 are on paper divided between ukrainian control and controlled by these self proclaimed republics. um, during the past 8 years they learned that was one of the things that alaska said, even in his election campaign that he wanted to have direct talks with russia. russia has a snub to this idea and has not been willing to a potent has not been willing to talk to him. um, we've heard that yesterday that there might be a that this might be a way out. i as, as, as with everything in these talks on both sides are now testing the waters and none of the words should be taken literally. um we will see what comes out of that dw correspondent mathias barrier reporting from the ukranian capital. thank you. britain's defense ministry says russian units,

suffering heavy losses have been forced to return to russia and belarus, to reorganize and re supply as ukrainian forces re capture territory. their finding abandoned military hardware and neighborhoods left in ruins. these russian tanks now belong to the ukrainian forces are, these are a trophy tanks. we captured all of them. this was the 1st one and there's a 2nd one over there. it's also a trophy tank. we fix this one yesterday and was collected another one from the forest to day. they simply left it there. yesterday. we have a skirmish. we were shooting at each other when they got scared and backed off, he's got to stock left it there. so we took it a little, but listen, the dog mails and other tanks were destroyed during recent heavy clashes just outside of kiya douglas wooden universe. 3rd says the law of all of

really 2 days ago from this village was liberated by our forces to worship. with roy, there were ukrainian army and volunteer units. oh, greens crowded me. oh, we kicked the russians out of here. bullet sweets and they are now several kilometers away out of the cumulative. now they will advance let and will free more villages in the coming days. copies didn't help the dollar library shelves. after a month of fighting ukrainian troops are managing to win back territory. but while the impact of these counter attacks is not yet clear, the impact of russian shelling is this man's house on the outskirts of the capital was severely damaged. especially the elderly struggle to survive in war zone. so does that. you are no better to were you. i am living through my 3rd war borough. i am 92 years old. better best to know that i've worked all my life and now i have all this suffering. but i don't know you're,

we had to sleep out on the ground the 1st night. i worked all my life for this house. though nick, nobler ukrainian units have been able to defend lines and keep russian troops away from the city center. for them, russia's recent announcement to drastically reduce operations around key of is welcome news. but these ukranian soldiers know that if words are not followed by actions, the threat remains or next gas, the glass net called. she's the author of russia security policy, under putin miss. net call. thank you for being with us. now russia claims it will reduce its military activity in western governments like the one washington state. they have to see it to believe it. are you seeing it? do you believe it? thank you very much for hi me on. so the russians already last week talks about sort of focusing more on dumbass and yesterday talked about the good will that

there will sort of move back from shedding of to a new hip and cave. now, the focus of the operations does team to of, if not shift had been intensified sort of on the south. mario poll east and ukraine . however, as your corresponded earlier noted there were heavy shillings around keith last night. and so this is something that we will still continue having to watch because the ukrainian defense, for example, has suggested that the russians are moving more troops from georgia. more troops are still being moved from further afield. and at this point, we don't know whether the russians are going to engage in sort of what they did in syria, which has continued negotiations at the same time as that military operations continue . now this is one of the largest armies in the world. we know that very important launch is full scale invasion and, but perhaps hope for a swift victory. that is certainly not what's happened here. why have this military been unable to meet their military objectives thus far?

do you think so i think this is a question of sort of multiple issues that the russians have encountered. first of all, they have tried to go for the sort of the 3 pronged approach, essentially moving in from the south, the east and the north. originally, commentators thought that this would be, you know, a way of drawing out the ukranian forces. but in practice, this operation has failed. the russian military was simply overstretched and absolutely unable to conduct such an operation in practice. but also they've had the logistics issues. they've had, they're being bog down issue. the meeting of the, you kind of resistance has obviously been very significant. morale is low coordination of the different forces has been very poor. the russians have tried to regroup, have tried to re deploy, have tried to shift their focus. so you know, now they're conducting a war of attrition. and therefore, you know, despite the initial failures, we still have to be mindful that the conflict is still ongoing. and that, you know,

even shifting to dumbass does not mean the end of operations. ukraine has proposed it's neutrality in exchange for security assurances. is this going to be enough? do you thing for vladimir putin to declare victory at home and pull his forces from the country? so we're here talking about the ukrainian proposals that were sort of revealed yesterday. now the important thing to keep in mind is this is the ukranian negotiating position. we haven't actually heard a russian response to it. and the proposal as it stands, crosses a lot of sort of red lines that pertain has put in place. one of which is, you know, an ukranian neutrality on the one hand, but effect to the plan suggest something very similar to ukrainian membership of nature in practice is sort of the quote of article 5. i think this will be a red line for president position because effectively, you know, it's sort of ukraine being part of nato almost by default. so i would say,

why would you think that the russians, i didn't push back against this proposal? similarly over the question of crimea over the question of dumbass. so at this stage, what we don't know essentially is the russian response. this is what we would be looking out for over the next few days. and now it's difficult to answer this question, what vladimir putin is thinking, but given the stage that his military is in right now, what other options do you think he's entertaining right now? so this is sort of the, you know, the been a $1000000.00 question because we know so little about what's actually going on in credit. and at the moment. now, what we can say is that recognition of sort of the end of the initial phase of the military campaign i think is an acknowledgment by the russian side of the initial failures. so we know that we know that they're also going to focus sort of focusing on the war of attrition. so militarily, they're trying to change tactics or at least modify them to the new reality. what

we don't know ultimately, and this is the important question, is, what is perkins perception? all russia's military fail is on the ground. i how quickly will they be moving towards, you know, wanting the negotiations to be settled because that's the big question. will he cross and if he's red lines, will he sort of compromise on crimea on neutrality at this stage? we don't know that at that's why people are very skeptical about whether the proposal that you couldn't put in place will actually sort of fly over the next few days. but again, you know, we don't know at this stage what kremlin is thinking maybe they will come out with their writing proposals later this week. but this is a way to see situation. a glass not called an expert on russian foreign and security policy. thank you very much for your insights. thank you. now some breaking news here in germany. the government has just announced it's activating it's early warning plan in anticipation of possible shortages of gas supplies from

russia. economy minister robert, have ex, dressed that there are currently no shortages, but the government would be establishing a crisis team to monitor the situation more closely. the move follows russia demand for gas payments and roubles, which germany and other western nations have rejected. for more i'm joined now by a political correspondent, jared. read. jerry, what more can you tell us about this development this our hi, i be, will the background to old? this is a demand from vladimir person that countries like germany pay for gas in the rubles and earlier this week we had the g 7, which is led by germany at the moment reject this demand. and so moscow has put this into a bill requiring countries to essentially pay for energy in rebels, which the g 7, as i said, says it will not do so. this has caused robot hardback to sit up a crisis team and activate this early warning level that you just mentioned,

which is where we are right now. that means a crisis team will be holding daily meetings with our gas providers. guest service providers, representatives of the regions, they'll be monitoring the situation really closely seeing how they can best work together. so that's where we are today. the next 2 levels are the alarm level and the emergency level. and under a you, law and early warning level, what we have now can be issued if you have concrete, serious, unreliable evidence that that could be an event which could potentially threaten supply. and clearly germany believes that this bill that is being proposed by russia does constitute that. as you mentioned, at the moment, robot hobbit says there is no cause really for concern to shortage for uses or industry. it just means that they've kind of institutionalized the situation of monitoring a gas supply in kind of

a formal sense. we have to keep in mind that countries like germany that are currently trying to scale back dependence on russia for energy, but still are very reliant on moscow. they need to kind of formalize these processes to see how they could potentially react if and when russia might decide to stop supplying the w political correspondent, jared read. thanks, jared, shortly after russia invaded ukraine, german chance or olaf shoulds announced a historic increase in military spending. it included a one time, some of $100000000000.00 euros to swiftly upgrade the armed forces and a pledge to spend at least 2 per cent of germany's economic output on defense every year. so what exactly is germany planning to buy with these billions? here's a closer look. these us build aircraft up top of the bonus air shopping list.

the f 35 can carry all types of weapons. it's design and coating. make it difficult for radar to detect with germany's current free to fighter jets aging fast and upgrade is long overdue. d f m rises is us with the f. 35 is the most modern combat aircraft in the world, martha and many of our partners, especially here in europe, have also chosen that some models and partner together with our partners in the alliance will strengthen our ability to secure nato s face. was incredibly to ter, lockwood, and also if need be, defend ourselves under goodness and as i most of the fertile, even the deal marks a shift in policy instead of pursuing its own development projects the bond. is there spying what's on the market? even though critic say it increases germany's dependency on the u. s. the war in ukraine has made military modernization even more urgent. when it comes to add

a fence, the german armed forces are now also considering purchasing an israeli anti missile shield. the system is called aero 3 and compliments the so called iran dome, to protect israel against rockets. it can shoot down long range ballistic missiles and would be powerful enough to protect countries in eastern europe as well. that something germany so far has not been able to do, but might need to in the future the muscles, alabama. so prepare ourselves for the fact that we have a neighbor who is currently prepared to use force to assert his interest. and that's why we have to make herself strong together so that that does happen. on tablet. also needed new heavy lift transport helicopters to replace the old sikowski. c h 53, a system developed and the 1960 s the list of what the bond is there needs to bring

it into the 21st century. is a long one from navy ships and tanks to radio equipment. and i mean this in the backlog caused by decades of chronic under funding will likely take years did our chief international editor richard walker joins the now in studio to discuss this further, richard, the german defense minister has been in washington talk to us about the purpose of her visit. yeah, that's right. so that's the 1st visit since taking office. we're cleaning, christina lum, place to the new minister of defense. she hasn't worked in this field before. and all of a sudden she's in the middle of this traumatic development in germany, security policy and, and finding things to spend this 100000000000 euros on. so she'll be meeting or she has met her u. s. counterpart. lloyd austin, the secretary of defense, other meetings in washington. and this would have been a routine visit, you know, for a new minister of defense in germany, of course, heading to, to consult with us allies. but this war is, of course scrambled everything. so her main mission there is really to explain this

new defense policy that germany has come up with and all of this spending and, and some of the things that they will be spending that money on her as a little bit about the international criticism that germany has faced in recent years over its approach to defense, we know that the chancellor has said there's going to be a change coming is actually happening or is it just on paper and how is that going right now? what? yeah, it was really interesting. so because he loved plays, took part in a think tank event in what while she was in washington with the atlantic councils. that's as a d, c. think tanks, there's a task very, very closely linked to nato is really interesting to see the beginning of that. she was introduced by general jim jones, who was the former supreme allied commander in europe. he was a former national security adviser in washington, a real establishment military and defense figure in the u. s. and he referred to this investment and he said on that, congratulations, this being kind of treated is like, it was like a birthday moment that germany sort of seeing the light about defense and making up

for the shortfalls of investment over the years. and in land place to message, it was really interesting to follow what she was saying. she was absolutely if use of in her praise for joe biden and the leadership that he's shown in the, in this crisis. and her message essentially was what we're doing here in germany. this is for real, we are really making this big change that anybody who skeptical about it, you know, don't be skeptical or we're going to deliver on this. essentially, we see that america is back as joe biden has said many times, and we are with you germany is with you. now i think many observers are still wary to some extent that wondering whether germany will kind of always kind of revert back to this more cautious approach. because the lamp insisting, for instance, that germany is become the 2nd biggest supplier of weapons to ukraine after the united states. so i think one quote that i would pick out to closes, like she said, germany has arrived in this new reality. and it's facing up to the consequences dw,

chief international editor richard walker. thank you very much, richard. in israel, a gone man on a motorcycle has killed 5 people after opening fire on a crowd. just east of tel aviv. it is the 3rd incident of its kind in the country within a week. both us secretary of state antony, blinking and un chief antonio garish, have condemned it as a terrorist attack. warning that the falling report contains disturbing footage. this video shows the alleged gunman on his shooting spree. witnesses said that the assailant began shooting at apartment balconies and then a people on the street and at a car. he was then subsequently killed by police. the deadly assault follows to other attacks in the country in recent days. on sunday, 2 police officers were killed in ha dara y last week. 4 people died in a bombing in the city of beersheba. the islamic state group has claimed

responsibility for both attacks. clinical ha, gaming arguments, how we ever going to end this problem? how can we leave our homes every day in a different place every day? alicia, this is my home is really officials had warned about a possible surge in assaults for april in the run up to the muslim holy month of ramadan, a period in which violence has spiked in the past. oh, hello. hello, hello, citizens of israel ocean. these are difficulties in every few years that the state of israel face us a wave of terrorism shifter after a period of quiet is a violent outburst from those who are trying to destroy us, to quote those who want to harm us at all. costs certainly whose hatred of the jews of the state of israel drives the mat. elisha, those who are willing to die as long as we do not live in peace. there has been no immediate claim of responsibility for this most recent attack yet. but israel

remains on high alert. a charity concert for ukraine has raised some 14, a half 1000000 euros for humanitarian aid among the music stars who took to the stage of birmingham or ad sharon and camilla could bail. ah, one high point of the concert ukrainian ilia blunder rankle plain lie from the basement shelter and keep on with 94 violinists from around the world. ah. in football, now senegal are heading to the world cup after defeating egypt on penalties, just as they did in the african nations cup final, earlier this year, senegal score early to make the aggregate score level at 11. there were no further

goals. and when the match went to penalties, egypt star player mohammed sala missed his spot kick before us audio money scored the winning penalty. senegal will play in the world cup for the 3rd time in their history. on the european side of the world cup qualification, 2 of the 3 remaining spots have been filled. portugal defeated north macedonia, to nil to san christiana, rinaldo, to his 5th world cup elsewhere. poland beats sweden to now with robert levin dorski among the goal scores ukraine's playoff semi final with scotland has been postponed until at least june. the winner will take on wales for a place in katara. you're watching. the news is a recap of our main stories. germany has announced it is activating its early warning plant in preparation for possible shortages to gas supplies from russia. the government stress there are currently no shortages, but that it would be establishing a crisis team to monitor the situation more closely. and russia claims that will

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