fathers and sons starts april 16th on d, w ha. ah ah, this is the w news live from berlin. is germany doing enough to help you crane in the face of russian aggression? chancellor, all of shots has been taking questions from lawmakers upon his government's ukraine policies, and he says, germany has won a most of that to you. it must be our goal that russia does not win this war. duff and survivors of the occupation of butcher tell dw journalists how they endured the

atrocities committed in the ukrainian town by invading russian force plus european union. lawmakers vote on the 5th round of sanctions against moscow, including a ban on russian coal. the you commission president warns an oil import band could follow suit. ah, i'm glad else as well come to the program. we start here in germany. we are chance to all of charlotte has been answering questions in germany's parliament on ukraine . schultz expressed his horror over the images emerging from the ukrainian town of boucher following the withdrawal of russian troops. and he told lawmakers that germany's goal in the ukraine conflict was very clear. as muscles at sea of life, it must be our goal that russia does not win this war as does

a saturday. that is what is behind the measures. we are undertaking a name with weapons deliveries with financial and humanitarian assistance. taking in refugees acting again or the global sanctions measures that we have agreed worldwide. that fight for and bon jonas chancellor shows they're speaking in the bond stark, a just a few minutes ago now are political correspondent in the houses at the bonus. dark . nina, you listened to that whole speech or what stood out for you. well, of sides. the german chancellor was not very specific when it comes to concrete consequences that add the german government might potentially or draw a since the atrocities committed in boucher m. but a couple of things didn't stand out in his speech, where he reiterated germany's position again, and he said, russia mustn't win this war. also, he said, we will deliver and we are delivering all the weapons that make sense and that can

be delivered. but of course, we have to make sure that nato parties don't become a party to that war. and that russia and vladimir putin can't interpret our actions that way. that was the implicit message. then also you stressed and or the projects that the german current government is currently undertaking to expand a renewable energy. he has to reduce germany's dependency on russian energy imports . and he did mention the of the 5th sanctions package, that of germany together with its allies is going to impose of where and the partners will agree on an import been on coal. and he said that as the dependency really must be reduced as quickly as is possible. so they will start with coal, which germany has already started reducing its imports from russia of em. but if you think about the question did, would to really change? and you think, well, if all have chance, thinks that, then he didn't say it today. so, germany, as you mentioned,

is under pressure from its allies to radically reduce energy imports from russia, colas, of on the table now. but how far is germany really willing to go the german government has announced that at once her own cut off imports essentially it wants to become fully independent of russian energy. but of course, a previous governments have and may have created a situation where germany has a really high dependency on russian energy imports. and so this is something that will have short stress. again, you can't correct overnight with coal that some further steps have been undertaken . next step would probably be oil that might be doable by the end of this year, says the german government. but when it comes to gas imports and reducing the dependency on russia there, that will take months if germany doesn't want to harm itself. now there is a lot of pressure, especially coming from ukraine,

that in the light of atrocities committed in boots and probably in of the cities. germany can't continue with this position and, and essentially send money over to pay for the gas that it imports from russia because russia might use that money and is using that money for its own war efforts . but of course, there's also understanding for coming, for example, from the u. s. from the ambassador here in berlin, who said, well, of course germany has to take a careful steps. she understands the position that germany can't harm itself more than it would potentially harm mister putin. but obviously donhauser, they're reporting from the bullet stock. thank you very much, nina. with me and the studios, archie slithered. some sailor tussa. michelle. no real policy change then in that speech from olaf shots or do you get the sense of boucher made? any difference at all? well, certainly anyone who expected some shoot announcement to come out of germany, a game changer, something like the nor stream cut off that simply did not take place today in his

rhetoric, he did call this a war crime that should be investigated. and at the same time, clearly, this is a chance that he makes a point of being tied in with his allies, with nato and with the european union. and here we are seeing some movement, and we are seeing the u successively moving towards more and more of an energy embargo, as you know, mentioned coal oil. but where with gas and certainly germany draws the line, it went from a dependency of 50 plus percent down to 40 percent. and, but also if this is the clearest statement yet i've heard from the german cancer thing that the aim is that russia must not win. so essentially, it is a fight against rasa. he would not put it in such terms, but this is the clearest. i've heard yet, and at the same time saying that anything we have, we will now send towards ukraine. now you could ukraine's busta here in germany, in terms of this was in terms of weapons and the test that is best said,

that's not happening. you could be doing more, you're not giving the green light for weapons exports as fast as you should at this moment in time. we don't have the full transparency there. and everybody is waiting with baited breath whether this 5th saxons package will be so hard hitting that it really is the game changer and will fulfill the criteria of being as shocking to russia as those images of future have been to all of us here of the weekend in terms of sanctions as briefly talk. talk about gas. no mentioned in that speech about reducing dependency or cutting off supplies from russia. what can we expect reducing dependency? yes. not cutting off supplies. this is simply not on the card. certainly for the german government. right. now, although i'm saying this now we know how much contains, within the space of days and weeks, we didn't know what mobile come out of ukraine. and at the same time, a chance it determined to take leadership. also, when it comes to that aim of not letting rasa get its way to be sure that he's not

the flu. the good sir. thank you very much for this analysis. fears are growing in ukraine of you more widespread atrocities committed by russian forces against civilians. with global revulsion solidifying over civilian killings in the town of boucher president, vladimir zalinski likened russia assault ali to nazi war crimes. ukrainian officials wars that are the shattered communities, including the town of abode younger, north west of the capital. keith may have suffered even worse fates than boucher currently. more than 200 people are missing there or have been found dead. i'm now john from keith by dw correspondent, next connelly. nick. what's the situation and keith in the region? am i right now and what have you been hearing about bored? younger for, we've been getting reports of more mass graves, more people still missing, unaccounted for situation that's mirrored across this region. big swathes of church

in northwest the kids were under russian military control, 4 weeks or up till just a couple of days ago. and it's a huge swathe of territory. and there are lots conflicting reports coming out and it's very difficult to verify them because also there's a huge issue with mines with various kinds of traps and other dangerous to ukrainian services going in, trying to recover bodies trying to help the civilians who are there on the ground, lots of whom have been living now without power, without gas, without mobile phone coverage for a month. and this is huge confusion and inability to basic it a very clear overview, what's going on, but definitely here the worry is that the situation we saw in future with hundreds of civilians, dead off lying in the streets for weeks before they could be buried. that is going to prove to be far from an exception, but this was can be something to be repeated in town of to town. now to have the

atrocities that were uncovered in boucher and of still being uncovered elsewhere impacted. ukraine's approach to peace negotiations with russia was 70 change the tone here within ukraine. i think people thought that they had seen it, all of that in the images of, from our apple, of smart poll has not been fully taken by russian troops. so that was artillery fire from outside hitting indiscriminately targets and civilian residential areas. this of the different living and occupation running the gauntlet as we saw the bush, people have risking death being shot at just leaving their homes upstairs. if a hardening in the turn, lots of ukrainian military people saying that they can't see how they can take russian prisoners, that basically taken care of shooting and not take prisoners. that's not government policy for now. but definitely you hear that chain in turn. as for the government, well president, he says he that negotiations all the only way out and that in spite of everything ukraine, indeed he has in butcher. he's willing to sit down at a table with let him putin. but the thing is that

a person does one sit down to negotiations with him. he's consistently been avoiding this consistently been ignoring those ukrainian offers of dialogue. at the beginning, it was more about basically saying that ukraine isn't an independent country, isn't in a position to make a deal that basically pushing has to cut a deal directly with joe biden, who he says basically is calling the shots here in ukraine. and that kind of rhetoric has passed now slightly, but for now, they're still avoiding those ukraine offers of direct talks in the rooms for moscow . all the video pitching will basically only be willing to meet to lensky if zalinski will be willing to sign some. her capitulation to a seat. so those russian demands and basically allow russia writes over ukraine in its freedom to choose its path in future they present to lensky as spoke directly to the un for the 1st time since this invasion. what is he looking for from the un security council? i'm not sure the, the hopes are pretty high hearing here that the u. n. a specifically,

will be able to do much. i mean, that had been to colorado some kind of un peacekeeping mission. and indeed, all through the years of this conflict that basically southern 2014 and carried on and on by since then. now fully in a much bigger and more violent form. and, but i think this is just part of ukraine's diplomatic efforts to draw as much tension is possible to try and put pressure on western leaders who by ukrainian or, but ukrainian can take on it or not. still sending enough in the way of money in the way of weapons or not taking the steps to will to full energy embargo russia and not doing enough to really make russia pay a high economic price for this war. i'm saying that's all part of that. as for the ins and outs, i think people here very very we are contracted with rushes her veto in the suit council. the chances of some kind of resolution that would do much help ukraine, a pretty slim correspondent economy. there in keith many thanks, nick. after 4 weeks on the russian occupation, the world is now gradually finding out the scale of the horrors inflicted on the

town of boucher grim evidence of killings and torture has emerged since russian troops were treated bodies lying in the street and piled up in mass graves. those who survived are telling their stories now did obviously some of an arm and visited butch up to her 1st hand. what residence experienced wanting? some viewers will find some of the images in her report disturbing on the road to boucher burnt out. tanks and car wreck ski the foreboding of the horrors this small town has lived through. in a center of butcher residents came together like every day hoping for humanitarian help to life. food is scarce. here, they said. many seem deeply traumatized while a demeanor and his mother told me they saw their friends and neighbors detained and killed by rational forces. couldn't you? said moore, wichita, they took him a march 7. and as it turned out, he was shot him dead. a day later took

a done util closely. we found his body only after they retreated, and when actually it that they were killed, we found his body with his fingers broken their party and a shot to the head. if they prefer it in the hollow a yes, the kicker to little people were buried in the back yard still or in the forest dumbly susan had anybody here in butcher, russian soldier, stand accused of terrible war crimes. witnesses speak of summary executions of civilians killed at will. the ukrainian government is urging international experts to come to woodshop to investigate the allegations. they hope that what happened here will be a turning point in the international response to the war. at the ever and of butcher forensic scientists arrived at the spec yards to pick up the bodies of sick civilians discovered their recently authority say they were not held by a bombard messiah,

but shall dat. and then set on fire. eugene like olivia escort me, shoot in a war. all the soldiers kill soldiers, janna out watching it all. they been trained to hotdog and are ready to die for their bliss and ideals. yahoo foretold, woof! swear or through killing civilians. hazard pro fish are yet. i've almost not embraced within 3 quarter, but show freedom of the rush. government dismissed the allegations as stage anti ration propaganda. but the evidence is mounting even though it full investigation could take time. time consuming is also the clearing of minds and booby traps placed in the town. ukrainians. troops told us in butcher, then you miss there with as you can see yourself, there are many different types of military hardware here that can explode and threaten the lives of civilians. alicia, so we're working on in the future still has a long way to go before alive can get anywhere near back to norm.

ukraine's president vladimir zalinski has called for urgent action from the united nations over alleged russian war crimes. he addressed the meeting of the un security council after visiting boots on monday to lansing, sharply criticized the security council for its inability to stand up to russia's aggression. as a permanent member of the council, russia has the power to veto any binding resolution, making the body powerless evil to act against the war. in ukraine, proportionality and precaution, the besieged city of mario pom has been under constant russian bombardments since the beginning of the war. more than half the population has fled, but up to 170000, others remain trapped without food, water, or electricity. to w correspondence, rebecca orators met one doctor who spent 25 days and nights helping the injured until she too took the chance to flee through almost 4 weeks of war and the most unspeakable conditions. anna,

a neurologist worked and lived in the mary hugh paul city hospital. now in the relative safety of live. she tells me of her ordeal, but just let us show during the heaviest, bombardments we had around 50 patients an hour arriving a day. the hospital was so over crowded and the windows doors and roof wall destroyed stead. not long after it got even worse, the russians cut the water supply as but alice knew we would gather snow, rain water, use the water from inside the boilers and disinfect it. so many patients were dying, she tells me they were forced to put the corpses outside in bags as to have all the worst thing was when the relatives would come to look for their loved ones. with him they had to open all the bags, the bitter cold, they saving grace as it prevented the worst of the stench. they showed bachelor what i saw, i think that even the most perverted minds wouldn't be able to imagine. they,

it's on the edge. no bit of the night of the 20th of march, i named this night the genocide. let me up as wally this was the night when the bombings just wouldn't stop political, an issue hollow. every time we heard a bomb coming. mitchells i was lying and thinking i would cover my head like that and think this one will be the one that gets us lost. just a moment come, sickly, and it's hard to comprehend. a moment when you want it all to be over. in a good way that she survives a blitzer as a king or in a bad way. don't ye die to rosa and you don't care how you die. just as long as it's all over among us to both connect samouce and soon it would be she and a few of her colleagues took their chance to escape. were we wholly, we were driving and then in the distance we saw our flag, the uh, blue and yellow flag and ukrainian troops. the block in the proper tumble. one of

them gave me a hug. and it's weird, but i asked him, can i be a ukrainian here? is it safe thought and he said yes, you're at home budged? no, for a doctor. dormer said alive, but dead inside. she tells me as she faces a life haunted by what she's witnessed. call it is it when the world sees what happens in maryville. it will be butcher multiplied 515100, which are by 1000 to modern day such and here i saw the other stories related to you, the ukraine war in brief. the un says more than 11000000 ukrainians have fled their home since the war began. that's more than a quarter of the population on the secretary general for humanitarian affairs martin griffith and said more than 4000000 people have left the country while the others are internally displaced. pope frances has received the ukrainian

flags sent from butcher and condemned what he described as the massacre of civilians. there at his weekly audience in the vatican. the pontiff, welcome to a group of young ukrainian refugees and called for an end to the war. you are a secretary of state antony blink and says, washington will provide an additional $100000000.00 and assistance to you, including anti arm assistant. lincoln made the announcement ahead of wednesdays, meeting of nato and g 7, ministers in russell where they'll be discussing the the you and the usaa ready in tough new sanctions on moscow in response to the atrocities in boucher while washington is expected to target pollutants in a circle and ban all new investments in russia. you lawmakers for the 1st time said to take aim at the country's energy industry with

a ban on russian cold commission president, also on the line warned an embargo on oil imports could also see when we follow the w's bible have is it has followed the discussion in the you, parliament for us is a summary. since the warren ukraine began, russia has made about 35000000000 rows from energy exports to the european union. that was one of the facts quoted during this debate here in the european parliament amongst themselves. parliamentarians from the different member countries as to struggling about how tough the answer to vladimir putin should really be. the fifths sanctions, se package was under debate, but to hundreds of members here are counting afford total ban on gas, oil and coal. immediately. the majority of parliamentarians are supporting 8 mild a solution, calling for ban on oil and coal right now in order to make rushes regime field. the

financial pain. however, charts. michelle, the council president talking for member states you in parliament said that just coal would be included in the next sanctions package. he did mention however, that rather soon measures on gas and oil could be needed. so there seems to be another round of sanctions being prepared in the background at the moment, however, after the atrocities and the allegations of severe war crimes in ukraine. this next sanctions package might well look like a lost opportunity. barber vessel revolting. there from brussels. we will continue to bring you the latest on the war and ukraine throughout the day. meanwhile, here are some other stories we are following for you at this hour. 2 leading rights groups have accused if he appears armed forces of waging a campaign of ethnic cleansing against tig ryan people in the water, north of the country. amnesty international and human rights watch say the abuses

against civilians amounted to war crimes and crimes against humanity. security forces have been deployed to sri lanka, capital parliament in the capital, colombo as a nation wide protest. grove for weeks reluctance have struggle to find essential set food medicine and fuel emitting economic crisis. despite the pressure president would a buyer, roger parks, or has it defied calls for his resignation? bruce president, petro casteel, has listed a curfew on the capital, lima of to bailey a day. the government imposed the measures as part of a state of emergency to suppress protests that broke out over the rising prices of fuel and food. russian rights at ludmilla lit sky is regularly mentioned as a possible candidate for the noble price of literature fiction addresses the years

during the stalinist terror, as well as everyday life in post soviet russia. but she's also one of the most outspoken critics of kremlin policies. she criticized the annexation of crimea and is among the 1st cultural figures in russia to oppose the current war in ukraine. but her stance has come with personal consequences. ah, let me, let me lead sky. i doesn't know if she'll ever return to moscow. the rushing right i left her home in mid march a month after the war started. she was persuaded to leave at the age of 79 by her son. but still, i didn't feel threatened and i didn't understand my son's decision. but i trusted his judgment because i think he can assess something better than i can if i was to me a lead sky. i was one of the 1st in russia to speak out publicly against the war in ukraine. the writer has never held off criticizing russia's leaders. she speaks out fearlessly and sees herself in good company,

grew my knuckle in my wide circle of acquaintances, and i'm not just talking about friends, but every one i know. i haven't met a single person who supports putin was, was not one of our lead sky is not just an important voice in russia. the trained geneticist from a jewish family has had her books translated into 30 languages, novels, and stories about the tragedies of the 20th century and everyday life in posts in russia, in her later collection and lisa, by her death. the heroines are women coping with everyday life. resume system and so she soon russia is a country where women have the upper hand than everyone except for in government. i mean, if this war can be it will be by women who if it's not stop, it means that in power, don't care at all. what women think or want to blue?

it's a lumens ancient, but bullet leach guy, i feel sure the wall will have terrible consequences. relations between russia and ukraine, she believe have been poisoned for generations. nevertheless, she's against censuring russian. art is to fail to distance himself from putin. yes, it does for hulu. i believe every artist, like every other person has the right to his or her own views, including in politics as an artist should be measured solely by their work. if they work is worthy of being presented to the world, let it be done. there was not been not a person's political view. his personal business was that jojo religion. and despite her own views, ludmilla lead sky, i have mixed feelings about becoming an anti putin spokesperson in exile. writers should observe, she says, and a bubble she wants to continue writing and hope the war will end soon.

and here's a reminder of our main story. germantown, sola shows told parliament his government's policy is to make sure that russia does not win its war against you. he said, germany is in confidential discussions with keith about possible future security guards. and that's it from me and the news team for now. i'll be back at the top with with

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