ah ah ah ah, this is dw slide from berlin is germany doing enough to help ukraine in the face of russian aggression. chancellor whole of charles has been taking questions from lawmakers on his government's ukraine policies. and he says, germany as one and it's most of that to you. it must be our goal that russia does not win this war. dust and survivors of the occupation of boucher tell d. w journalists,

how they endured the atrocities committed in the ukrainian town by invading russian forces and an eye witness account of the bombardment of maria paul from a doctor who managed to escape the besieged city. with when the world sees what happens in maryville, it will be butcher multiplied 515-105-1000 decision. ah, i'm glad of as well come to the program. and we start here in germany. we are chance that all of shows has been answering questions in the german parliament. on ukraine shows, expressed his horror over the image is emerging from the ukrainian town of butcher following b. withdrawl of russian troops. and he told lawmakers that germany's goal and the ukraine conflict,

clear. and that's the bit us what the latest pictures from butcher have shaken us all deeply. as our dogma, russian soldiers massacre ukrainian civilians there, including children, women, and the elderly, before retreating calling. and i to mention the cynical assertion made by russia to, through that this was staged, but falls back on those who spread these lies. heard of dealing talk to these are looking for by the murder of civilians. is a war crime is tweaks for brett jones jones i was speaking that'd earlier today with me here. the students are chiefly to go to cooper. now to discuss his statement there and the boon to start mozilla, the you got the sense of the atrocities that were discovered in boucher made. any difference in the german government policies? how clearly we're seeing a rhetoric here where assertion ne, t is giving way to caution. as the evidence is mounting with germans transfer all

sorts, calling this out as a war crime, also vowing that it must be investigated. those who did this be brought to justice . at the same time, we saw him state very clearly that russia must not win. so that is a new decisiveness in his language, but those of us who really expected a key announcement that would change the quality of a german of european engagement when it comes to pushing back on this once on thought on to ukraine. they were disappointed because we didn't hear a big announcement today, and we're hearing deep concern how much longer this will continue for. and we're hearing a chance that who is more and more determined to not let russia when, or as the american se, wanting to see in ukraine when this war. so no big announcer. but a bit of a hidden announcement, if you will, about the role that germany might be willing to play new friends,

security now and in the future. as he was asked directly about security guarantees that were 1st mentioned, or germany is foreign minister annually in a bad book that there would be a willingness at the german chancellor responded saying, look, there are negotiations where a potential neutrality of ukraine may play a role. he stress that this would be only up to ukraine, enrolled him is zalinski, is that ukraine's present to decide this would not be something pressed upon ukraine from the outside. and that in that connection, there is discussion about security guarantees by germany and others. but these are the vegas possible terms, and he said that the negotiations are set at such an early stage that he couldn't be more specific. so yes, there is a willingness, but nothing tangible before that the opposition to secure the guarantees the wars and 1st or, and to for that to happen. a grain of course, needs more weapons,

weapons exports to ukraine, difficult subject here in germany. what did he say about that? oh yeah, yeah. and you know, just, by the way, you phrase a question, of course it needs more weapons. well, this is a realization that ukraine's partners here in europe increasingly are coming to he did say that anything that makes sense and is feasible would now be sent to woods ukraine. the big question mark is whether this will include heavy weaponry, potential tanks, armored vehicles, whether that really is a blockade when it comes in, internal red tape located when it comes to actually allowing companies to export this. because the cache is certainly there on the ukrainian side. and here it is clear made clear by the german government that we're not hearing about everything that actually crosses that border into ukraine. a lot of course criticism, so from ukraine that it's not enough and it's not coming fast enough as we're seeing russia partially withdrawing. and there's an expectation that it will try to go into that isn't done yet. reason i should to secure that strategically important

chunk of ukraine also linking to crimea. another important issue and hotly debated to and germany is an energy embargo. what did he say about that? well, he didn't proactively say much about it activity, the european union and germany only wants to act in line with european partners is willing to go as far as coal oil. maybe next that's already being debated in brussels, but where germany certainly draws the red line in the whole of europe still is when it comes to gas exports from russia. europe, germany is simply too dependent on it. michelle, if not, she's politically added to thank you very much. well, meanwhile, fears are growing in ukraine of even more wide spread atrocities committed by russian forces against civilians with global revulsion solidifying over civilian killings in the town of butcher. president fleming zalinski like and like, and rushes sold on to nazi war crimes. ukrainian officials want than others shot at

communities including the town of border. the younger north west of the capital keys may have suffered even worse fates than boucher. currently, more than 200 people are missing them or have been founded. i'm now john from keys by dw corresponded 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 or 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 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 over what's going on, but definitely here the worry is that the situation so in future with hundreds of millions dead are often 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 the 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 us 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 that bush people have risking death being shot at just leaving their homes. and that 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 change in tone as for the government. well, president, he says he that negotiations all the way out and that in spite of everything ukraine, indeed he has in butcher. he's willing to sit down at a table with vladimir putin. but the thing is that a person doesn't want to sit down to negotiations with him. he's consistently been avoiding this consistency, 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 putting 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 are slightly, but for now, they're still avoiding those ukraine offers of direct talks in the rooms for moscow

. all the video portion would basically only be willing to meet to lensky if zalinski will be willing to sign some co capitulation to a seed. so those russian demands and basically allow russia writes over ukraine in its freedom to choose its path in future, make represent lensky as spoke directly to the you. and 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, i had been to colorado some kind of un peacekeeping mission. and indeed, all through the years of this conflict that basically sell in 2014 and carried on and on by since then. now flee 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 sorry, that's all part of that. as for the ins and outs, i think people here very, very we are conscious fact that with rushes her veto in the suit, canceled the chances of some kind of resolution that would do much help ukraine. a pretty slim i'll correspond nicolai there in t. if many thanks, nick d. w. 's, alexander phenomena visited butcher to her 1st hand what it's a residence experienced that a warning. some of us will find some of the images in her report disturbing on the road to boucher burnt out tanks and car wrecks give a foreboding of the horrors. this small town has lived through in the center of butcher residents came together like every day hoping for humanitarian help to life . food is scarce. here they say 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 signal which was they took him a march 7 and as it turned out he was shot him dead. a day later, the cardona closely, we found his body only after the retreating room when actually it that the what yellows we found his body with his fingers broken at party and a shot to the head if they prefer it in the hollow a yes, the kicker or people were buried in the back yard still, or in the forest. dumbly sousa 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 which i 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 born born messiah. but shall dat. and then set on fire ye. unlike only be score with me, shoot within a war, all were soldiers kill soldiers. joanna, are watching it today, or they've been trained to hotdog and are ready to die for their beliefs and ideals . yahoo! bottled boost, where or through killing civilians, hazard pro fish or yup. i'm us, you not embrace within 3 color, but you feel the rush government dismissed the allegations as stage anti ration propaganda. but the evidence is mounting, even though a 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 missed there was, as you can see yourself,

there are many different types of military hardware here that can explode and threaten the lives of civilians. over so we're working on industries. butcher still has a long way to go before alive can get anywhere near back to the m. o f. some other news related to the ukraine war in brief, pop, frances, a has received ukrainian flags sent from butcher and condemn body, described as the massacre of civilians and his weekly audience. in the vatican, they pontiff welcomed a group of young ukrainian refugees and called for an end to the war. a car is crashed into the gates of the russian embassy, the romanian capital, bucharest, the vehicle burst into flames, and killed the driver, but did not enter the embassy compound. it's not clear if the crash was an accident, all deliberate, the u. s. britain and australia say they will work together via originally greater

security alliance and to develop hypersonic weapons. the countries are concerned about china's military assertiveness. hypersonic missiles are too fast to be stopped. by most current defense systems. un says more than 11000000 ukrainians have fled their home since the war began. that's more than a quarter of the population under secretary at general for humanitarian affairs, martin griffith said more than 4000000 people have left the country while the others are internally displaced. the received city of mario pole has been under constant russian bombardments since the beginning of the war. more than half the population has fled, one up to 170000. others remain trapped without food, water, or electricity. w correspondent rebecca written, met one doctor who spent 25 days and nights helping the injured until she too took the chance to flee on 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, asked her to have all the worst thing was when the relatives would come to look for their loved ones on him, they had to open all the bags, the bitter cold, they're saving grace as it prevented the worst of the stench. they showed by chill out what i saw. i think that even the most perverted minds wouldn't be able to

imagine. it's an average ne bits the night of the 20th of march. i named this night the genocide. that'd be up as wally. this was the night when the bombings just wouldn't stop political, an issue. holla, every time we heard a bomb coming in mitchells i was lying and thinking. i would cover my head like that and think this one will be the one that gets us last. i in a moment comes sickly and it's hard to comprehend. a moment when you want it all to be over in a good way that she survived a blitzer looking or in a bad way. don't you die to rosa and you don't care how you die. just as long as it's all over a minister with connect to moose 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 of blue and yellow flag

and ukrainian troops. the block of 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 bridged. 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 marie pull. it will be butcher multiplied 515100, which 851002 more than this issue. the you and the us, i'm preparing tough new sanctions on moscow in response to the atrocities of butcher while washington is expected to target pollutants in a circle and ban all new investments in russia. eula makers for the 1st time i said to take aim at the country's energy industry with

a ban on russian co commission. president also funded line walden embargo on oil imports, could soon follow on to both those where we did abuse bible of isil spoke with the leader of the conservative european people's party group in the ruffian parliament montfort vba. what we're seeing in ukraine as heartbreaking. we are seeing evidence of the most horrific war crimes there. do you think that the response of the european union is strong enough? well, the response sir, must be strong, and for the moment as he 1st steps in a good direction, especially the big question of energy or embargo that we have now is the decision on the coal and that is good. but her, my group, and i myself, i'm insisting also and abandon oil and because there'd be to really hurt or put ins power system much. and that's why we should go one step further to also exclude to all from importing to the european union. oil would really be the crucial point,

because that is a large part of his income. he makes more money from oil than he really makes from gas. so why our country so reticent, all is replaceable from other sources. what's going on? well, you have to ask her counsel member, so member state level from an e p groups point of view from my political family. and also i think yesterday the european parliament will decide about coal and oil embargo towards russia. so there is a position of the parliamentarians and we insist that this must now hm. do you think you're after this biggest shake up of european policies, european security structures, everything that we believed in and thought would be our future. we can recover as easily do you think that we have to really re think a lot of our basic presumptions will be us thought we are strong. especially economically. european union is a strong from pillar in the gold order, or the question is not whether we are strong enough to to answer the question is whether we are ready enough to have an understanding. and that's my main my,

my main messages. this war is not a very far away. this is, this is our war. it's about our values. so we are affected. and we have to be honest to citizens, that if this will cost us, we see the relevant, the energy prices is inflation all over europe. so we have to contribute if we want to defend our european way of life, the have to invest in this, in the short term next to the energy embargo, 2 things. honestly. first of all, the greens are asking was, 1st of all for veterans weapons weapons, they need the possibility to defend himself. and the 2nd thing is we need budgetary support or cronies, running out of money, and that's why we have to stabilize the state budget receive. thank you very much. thank you so much. we will continue to bring you the latest on the worn ukraine throughout the day. but meanwhile, here are some other news headlines. 2 leading rights groups have accused, ethiopia is armed forces of wage in a campaign of ethnic cleansing, against to graham people in the north of the country. amnesty international as human rights watch say the abuses against civilians amounted to war crimes and

crimes against humanity. security forces have been deployed to for lancaster parliament in the capital colombo as nationwide protest grow for weeks. reluctance have struggled to find essentials like food, medicine and fuel. despite the pressure and economic crisis, presidents go to by our roger coxa, has defied holes for his resignation. bruce president, petrocca seal has lifted a curfew in the capital, lima after just one day. the government imposed the measures as part of a state of emergency to suppress protests that broke out over the rising prices of you and food. china has reported more than 20000 covey cases after weeks of rising infections, its highest daily count. since the start of the pandemic authorities in shanghai have extended as it is locked down, but have relaxed

a widely unpopular policy that separated infected children from their parents. russian writer, the lose miller, will it scale is regularly mentioned as a possible candidate for the nobel prize for literature. her 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 criminal policies. she criticized the next ation of crimea, and as 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 guy 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 the age of 79 by her son . scratch though, 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 rush of 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 post russia, in her later collection. and lisa, by her death, the heroines are women coping with everyday life. resume of systems where she soon

russia is a country where women have the upper hand everywhere except for in government. i mean, if this war can be, it will be by women who, if it's not stopped, it means that in power, don't care at all what women think or want from blue. it's a lumens ancient. but 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 a 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, religion, and despite her own views, ludmilla lead sky. i have mixed feelings about becoming an antique putin spokes person in exile. writers should observe, she says, and bubble she wants to continue writing, and hope the war will end soon. ah . it was seen dw news. here's a reminder of our top story. germany's chance that all of shows sold in parliament, his government's policy is to make sure that russia does not win it's war against ukraine. he said to germany is confidential discussions with keith about possible future security guarantees. coming up next in d, w. news, asia. what led to the economic crisis that triggered sri lankan political

turmoil and indian medical students who have escaped ukraine, now phase new hopes that are jeopardizing their future as dr. all down to the mall with melissa chand, just after this program. and remember, you can always get all the latest news on the website. that's d w, don't they loud rock. what else more headland open ah, with

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