time starts april 14 on d, w ah ah, this is dina hughes. live from berlin, fighting back, creating forces say they have to re taken the entire key region. but soldiers moving into villages and towns around the capital find scores of dead civilians. as the government warns of tough battles ahead in the south and east of the country, also coming up hungarians, head of the poles and parliamentary elections. prime minister victor or man is finding a coalition of 6 opposition parties with one goal. i was thinking after over

a decade in office ah, next by sir, welcome to the program. and we start 1st with this breaking news reports are coming in of missiles strikes on ukraine's southern port city of odessa. city council said in an online post, the city was attacked by miss isles, and there are reports of fires breaking out in some areas. footage shows large clouds of dark smoke rising over the city council said the missiles targeted one of the city's critical infrastructure facilities. on friday, ukraine's military said that his anti air defenses had blocked an attempted russian missile strike on board. and for more in this, i'm joined out from odessa by philip solo davina jenko of the ukrainian red cross in the odessa region. philip, what can you tell us morning?

so i cannot say actually good morning because this morning was a bit scared because it broke smitley at 5 am starting this year. okay. and can you tell us any, anything more what it it sound like? what happened? what kind of reaction was there from, from, from authorities and say exactly, because it was like morning time. so everybody wasn't home. so all the old people with at home actually, and this was like a very big noise. and this one, like morning, time to start to make any communication what's happening actually. and trying to find where is the location of this one, because you know, now you can actually, you see something like so you can not like send the location, you know? so we're trying to keep it this way through the secret. okay, so i understand you're withholding some information in order to not but the

ukrainian defenders at risk understood. okay, left big picture now. so far in this war, odessa hasn't been a heavy target of russian attacks. how concerned are people in the city that this is changing? now can you talk about that next, difficult to say about this, but you have been taking all kinds of steps. we've seen the pictures of people filling up sandbags, protecting statues and monuments dim. people have been on, you know, what we call a war fitting footing for weeks. now, preparing for any kind of attack is that, is that fair to say? can you tell me about that yet? so, all the people now preparing and all that people in odessa, but, you know, sometimes, so they're not the duck odessa, so are we are, it's become quite quiet. yes. and they're not there. this one. so the circuit back again. we're preparing all the people in odessa, all the volunteers actually,

all the families, everybody you know, and just engage other you know, the now please continue. yeah, i mean that people helping you. not all, not on the, i mean, i'm not on the military, you know, all the people now i was doing something you know, so real solidarity um from what you know, reports have been saying just a last question. if you could help us understand the significance of odessa what, what's so important about it important in odessa. yeah, i mean, it's support city is, is it is, it is strategic to the russians, obviously. yes. or tedious in sports. okay, sorry, just thinking of understand the question normally. no, that's okay. listen, the communication line is, is, is it is a bit iffy. thank you so much for your insight on what appears to be russian attack

on the port city odessa, philip. so a doesn't a chunk of the red cross in odessa region. thank you. and stay safe labor. ukraine says russian troops have either withdrawn or been repelled from the entire region around keith. the defense ministry says its forces have re taken more than 30 towns and villages for weeks. battles north of the capitol region kept russian forces from advancing some of the true cost of that resistance is now becoming clear as ukrainian soldiers and members of the red cross enter these locations. a warning to our viewers. this next report contains images. some may find disturbing . as russian troops withdraw from northern districts of cave, ukrainian forces are arriving to find death and destruction in their wake. the town of who, who is the scene of what some here are describing as a massacre. dozens of bodies lie on the road. resident save the retreating russian shot any one they found. but a hor delete. they mean these people were just walking with and they shot them

without any reason or bang in the next neighborhood. stick. ok. it was even worse. they shot without asking any questions. shoot their whistle nicked on you turn his brother to his town mayors. as these are just some of several 100 civilians killed oh street in yellow detroit. yes, of executed people still lying, the blue sky street and book you in the hands, the tie behind that box with white civilian rags. from here they was shot in the back of the head. sewage in an open trench bodies appeared to be partially burned. it's feared russian troops may have also left explosives and land mines behind an ear pin, another town north of the capital. a red cross team filled the devastation as they arrived to treat the survivors elsewhere. ukrainian forces say they are re taking all the towns and villages in the kiev region that had been under russian

control. but president ballade, amir soleski is warning. russia may be readying its forces to attack elsewhere. and earlier we spoke to our correspondent, i'm in a safe in the western ukrainian city of levine. and we asked him about what his hearing concerning a situation in the areas around the capitol. vermeer landscape has issued a warning that people should be very careful when they go, as we saw mines still there, that people have to watch out for when they go in. but what we're hearing now is image. we're seeing images and hearing stories of russians, just having shot people on their way out. one very start image was at people on the ground with their hands tied behind their back. nick, who were killed and had bags over their heads. now this, according to international observers, would be a war crime, in any case, even if these were military, because in some way there is evidence that they had been taken prisoner and then

killed. so basically an assassination. and this, we've seen evidence of this in all of the suburbs just about around here, where the russian forces have moved out. but ukrainians are still saying that they've, they've one sort of victory there. and a lot of people who live in western ukraine like the viv here are planning to move back in as soon as the situation becomes safe enough because the key of and the region around there had been evacuated, mostly as russian troops had moved in. so next news, but these are certainly horrifying images we're seeing after russian troops had moved out there. absolutely horrifying. i mean, just to move on to the war elsewhere in the country and another city which has been suffering the besieged port of mariel. paul, we understand that the red cross couldn't reach the city as had been trying to do for weeks. now. do we know why?

so a caravan of buses had set out as early as thursday, due to a negotiated cease fire between russia and ukraine, around that city, opening humanitarian corridors to try to get people out of there. but the caravan had still not been able to get into the city limits of mario pole. now, some 3000 civilians have been able to escape to get out of the city and then brought away on buses to see for areas. but in terms of getting into that city where an estimated 100000 or more civilians are still waiting for aid and 4 to be rescued that has still not happened. the red cross said that this was due to safety issues. there been claims that russia had sabotaged it by showing on humanitarian court or by not letting aid get into the city by taking buses that were full of 8 away from the red cross. and basically preventing this massive,

massive accusation rush on the other hand has blamed the red cross for the failure thing that it was due to their own logistical problems. and russia also, their narrative is that they are taking civilians out of the city to rush and control territory into russia as well. so we have seen that buses of arrived into russia from, with civilians from are you now what a lot of civilians who have escaped to western you can tell us is that these are forced evacuation that ukrainians. don't want to go to russia. they're at war with russia and they don't want to be taken basically hostage by russian under the guise of being saved from that received city. we're so much suffering is happening at this point next that was d w, of course. but i mean, as if in the western ukrainian city of levine, here's a quick look now at some other stories related to the war we've been following for you. ukrainian troops, every taking control of the ton of airport close to the capital key. after pushing back russian forces,

the wreckage of the world's largest cargo airplane was found in one of the hangers, severely damaged military equipment was also left behind. more than 200 people were arrested in cities across russia during protest against the war on ukraine on saturday. that's according to a group monitoring political detention in the country. demonstrations continue to despite the harsh penalties imposed by the government for what it considers to be discrediting of its armed forces. polls have opened in hungary as the country choose its next leader. and what is expected to be the tightest race in over a decade, voters are choosing between nationalists, prime minister victor or men, and a coalition of 6 opposition parties. we've come together in a bit to oust him or band of the right wing. fidel party is seeking a 4th consecutive term in office and d, w. correspond if and if a chart joins us from budapest. funny, the selection has been called as we were just saying, you know, the most important in a generation that does that sound right to you?

some people even call it historic name for the very pure fact that for the very 1st time in recent hungarian election, history and alliance of various opposition parties from left to right united india, a desire to oust prime as civic tuba. so if you cast your ballot today, you don't only have the choice between the govern party fetus that's been governing this country for the past couple of years and several small opposition parties, but one big alliance of various opposition pods, from left to right, that are actually normally quite divided along, i'd ideological lines, but as i say they came together to alice promised to victor alba. and then at that simple goal, that one goal that dominates here is going to be enough to convince voters to actually cast a book. a ballot for that alliance is something that we will see as this election is under way. and the results are coming in possibly later tonight, around 10 p. m. here in hungary. and now for some more of today's headlines,

protesters in sri lanka are calling on the country's president to resign. people are angry, over shortages of essential supplies, such as fuel and food. a nationwide curfew is in place until monday morning. several social media sites were blocked by the government in an effort to suppress the demonstrations. flash floods and landslides had killed at least 8 people, including 6 children across the brazilian state of rio de janeiro. 13 people are reported to be missing. it's the latest in a series of deadly storms to hit the region in the past few months. french president emanuel my call has held his 1st big rally in his race for reelection promised the french people more progress and solidarity over the next 5 years. mccoy is currently leading in the pools. the 1st round of the presidential election takes place on april the 10th and we turn to sports now, and lunacy go. whereby and munich has taken another big step towards their 10th

consecutive title. they won 4 to one against fryeburg, although they briefly had 12 players on the pitch and could face punishment. substitute says gladly scored the crucial goal to give iron a to one lead. they never looked back with all the goals coming in the 2nd half. there are just 6 games to go in the boonies league trophies almost certainly staying in munich. as long as the result, stance bar unix waltz to another bonus. the title has been made all the more likely by both shortlands blunder in front of a packed home crowd. they lost $4.00 to $1.00 to arby leipzig, austrian midfielder conrad lima. scored 2 of the girls to the 2nd place, darkman a hefty 9 points. the drift of leaders fired the impressive when also boosted forth, placed lupsi chances of finishing in the champions league. places. yet again, and you of course watching dw news live from berlin up next stories of hope amidst

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