ah, ah ah, this is deed of you use live from berlin. the 1st refugee convoy has made it out. the devastated port city of mario paul in ukraine. buses and private cars evacuate around 3000 residence. but humanitarian aid wasn't allowed in, and more than a 150000 people remain trapped in desperate condition. hungarians, head to the polls on sunday, the united opposition wants to unseat incumbent victor or ben. but his close ties to russia could tip the balance. and what experts predict to be

a tight race and as will smith boosted or bombed his career, talk back to resigns from the film academy after slapping chris rock at the oscars questions over the future of his career. take center stage in ha ah, nick spicer, welcome to the program for weeks now. the port city of mary, opal has been under siege by russian forces estimate, say more than 850000. people are trapped without water, electricity, or any food supplies. and they're exposed to constant shelling. several attempts to evacuate civilians have failed. on friday, a red cross convoy was reportedly blocked from entering variable, still ukrainian president low to mid zalinski says about 3000 people managed to escape without the sick surety they were promised. ah,

arriving to relative safety. after weeks of shelling over 3000 were able to escape murray or pull on friday. but it's a journey full of risks. one woman recounts her fears as she crossed the russian check point. this is that it is the big but it was very difficult. she said, you can't. i was afraid they would take my son away here. they made him to his phone on the ground and trample on it because he had american music. an attempt by the red cross to deliver aden, evacuate civilians ended in failure. the organization said the lives of thousands depended on evacuations. there is no plan b here we have been working for weeks. i am telling the media by our efforts to get into my appall with aid and to allow the safe passage of civilians out of the city

. m prime is running out to the people of my appall. they are desperately in need of assistance, though desperately need of leaving the 5th. if they wish to do so, been able to wait for the sled, the bombs and cause the white cloth aside. they mean no harm. as many as 870000 muscle trapped in the city. but been devastated by wal this former often age. now a makeshift bomb shelter for those who can't escape we came here to the basement. she said, if we stay here because we don't, what happens to our apartment? we run he with what we heart with the red cross said they will attempt once again to reach the city on saturday in a bit to rescue the innocent. from what is left of maria hall

and joining us now is maria sory jenko, a former resident of mariel. paul, who is now sheltering in levine in western ukraine, where you're welcome back to d w. news. over the past month, you've been giving us regular updates on what you've been hearing from the port city. and now some of your friends and family we understand have managed to get out . what did they tell you? hi, thanks for having me. yeah, most of my close people, my relatives and brands managed to escape the city and they share horrible terrifying stories. so they are weeks under constant shalayna with no food, no heat, no power, and no access to any information. they are very afraid. and as incredible as it may seem that thousands of people are trying to escape pretty much everybody, but some people were told or trying to return and understand. you actually have

a friend who tried to go back. yes, my girlfriend, she didn't find her parents in the state and she couldn't find the way how to vacate them with them all in tears. because as you know, there is no minute there and how and know corey dories? nothing for people to advocate. so she decided to go there on her own and just try to find her parents and keep them. unfortunately, i have no connection with her for 3 or 4 days already, so i don't know where she is right now. but i hope that she managed to find her parents to get them out of the seat out of help. and we hope so too. of course. listen, the city, as we've been saying is being shell nonstop, much lies and ruined. i think a lot of our viewers remember that turned reward that was came under or hillary barrage and to the theater that was destroyed,

which was sheltering people. do you think, despite the devastation that people, once peace comes, will want to go back to that city? while it's a very hard question, because because our home even despite that constant shell, in an older really that a currently there. but you can imagine that for instance, the mice are in there are great now. so i can't imagine when we can go back there and we will need to rebuild the city and, and fast, you know, billions of dollars that rebuild the houses and the infrastructure. but unfortunately thousands of people have rated dies and no one can on that. so i hope that we will be able to return and maria will be ukraine, and cb press with prosper and everything again. so i have

a dream to get back to my home. ok, maria syria. jenko, a former resident of mario, paul, thank you so much for sharing those harrowing stories and, and your dream is a quick look now at some of the other stories we've been following for you. the german government has approved the sale of nearly 60 tanks to ukraine. the vehicles are equipped with canada machine guns and were originally part of the east german military and now belong to a check company, but germany had to approve the sale due to an and use clause. a former reserve officer in the german military is facing charges of spying for moscow. federal prosecutor say he was in contact with russian intelligence services from 2014 to 2020. 30. believe he provided information about the german military and the impact of you sanctions against russia on german companies. european

partners, president, roberta, mit sola has met with ukraine president of load of news lensky on a surprise visit to keith. it's all a place that you would increase its assistance to ukraine. multi politician is the 1st top you official to visit since rushes invasion. china has denied deliberately getting around to use sanctions imposed on russia. you warned at a virtual summit that any attempts to from china, pardon me, to help russia war and ukraine to damage business ties between the 2 economic super powers and hungry prime minister victor or benz fidel party has been in power for more than a decade. in this sunday's parliamentary election, this status quo is being challenged. however, for the 1st time i united opposition alliance, the tense campaign has been dominated by the war next door with both sides promising voters their version of peace. fanny for char reports, it's plain sailing for hunger is prime minister, vic, to war barn on his home turf in secret for he had left protect the peace of hungry

under security. his mantra now only fit as can protect hungarians from the war. next door conflict, he initially described as a military option or bon, a close friend, an economy partner. footie now says a vote for feet as is a vote for a piece. the government claims your position is cruel war. something the opposition denies the war and neighboring ukraine. has taken center stage in the selection. but just how much is the war influencing? hold her. me a bit, get. we're going to vote for peace. that's why we're here. and peace will be delivered by the government by feed us. yup. it is, annie. choose peace. choose euro read this campaign slogan from hunger is opposition, but their message is being drowned out by orbit fetus party, which is dominating campaigning. some borders are also being swayed by domestic issues and take them. i will vote for the opposition because i see the future and

them and not in this homophobic government. a political analyst, peacher crack o says the war in ukraine has helped or been create a fresh narrative. so what are one does now is that he translates for him for his into domestic boy, it makes sense. the message is that if you support the opposition, then the real team awfully do crane. and as a result, there will be of war and you are hungry around voters can also die as a result of the war. and you as sam waters can pay the much for the gas and that tricity than you paid before. how much pita stands to benefit from the tactic is unclear. 20 percent of voters say they are still on the side? let's get you up to speed on some of the other global headlines now. sri lanka, president has declared a nationwide state of emergency following days of protests,

demonstrators block roads across the country on friday for a calling me, pardon me, calling on the government to resign. sri lanka is suffering shortages of fuel and wide spread power cuts on thursday. protesters set fire to vehicles near the president's home. in a major break through the warring parties in yemen, civil war have declared a 2 months cease fire. the un broker deal is the 1st nationwide truce since 2016. tens of thousands of people have been killed in 7 years, a fighting between and saudi led coalition backing humans, government, and who the rebels backed by, ran in the follow from slapping chris rock at the oscars actor will smith has resigned from the academy of motion picture arts and sciences, the body whose members vote on oscar award nominations. in a statement, smith said he would accept any further punishment decided by the academy. smith is facing disciplinary action after slapping comedian chris rock during the ceremony on saturday night. and for more on this let's go to ron. say it's like beto who is

an entertainment journalist in washington, d. c. thanks for joining us. runs a will. smith has resigned from the motion picture academy where the slap is this an attempt to head off more serious penalties? do you think? in many ways it does seem that way. i think he effectively blunted the impact of whatever might come in the future. so yes, i would, i would agree that that's what, that's what's happening right now. and you think he's sort of got the academy out of an awkward situation by resigning sort of preemptively and anticipating a possible, you know, dismissal possibly. possibly it's, it's unclear what it would look like for that. i mean, who knows what they can do to him? now he's no longer a member, but he says that he is open to whatever actions become. and so if they do take actions it's, it's interesting to see how, how that, how that will play out. so possibly they can see that he cannot actually rejoin the

academy for x amount of years, but it's at this point, we don't know, we still have to win the see. do you think there's a possibility that this was somehow negotiated with the academy beforehand and possibly with, with chris rock and there's a, there's a play is a screen plato all this rehabilitation somehow that was so i do know that will smith met with the academy early this week, so of course multiple reports, there was a 30 minute call between will smith and the leadership at the academy and he supposed to apologize and said that he was open to whatever action they decide to go with. but i don't think chris rock is involved, chris rock has said that he hasn't report said that they haven't spoken to each other. so i don't think chris rock is in any way involved, but it's not far fetched to think that he teams when we can meet early this week. and just to come back to l. smith, i mean shortly after the slap he won an oscar. so is he just sort of taking his

ball and leaving it 30 minutes after the slab of he p one. the ask is lacking chords reports, the academy was trying to decide how to respond to it. and by the time, you know, you know, the kind of figure out their options, he won the award so they were kind of left out with no options. so taking his ball even, i think would be to retire at which i don't. i don't think that's what this is. he's just no part of the academy, which means he can only vote and nominees, i and probably can no longer be nominated. but beyond that, i don't think that will be taking his ball and leading on his career. ok, ron says meadow, a journalist in washington, d. c. thank you for that insight. thank you so much. you're washing dw news. here's a reminder of our main story. some 3000 residents of mary, opal have managed to flee the besieged city. but a red cross mission was forced to turn back due to dangerous conditions. for 100000

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