[000:00:00;00] ah ah, this is the w. news ly. from berlin, more evidence comes to light of the devastation left behind by russian troops after their withdrawal from northern ukraine. the small town of wicked saw intense fighting between russian and ukrainian forces. our correspondent may calmly spoke to residents about their ordeal on the russian occupation. also coming up a bond hospital in mario poor ukraine on world health stake and appeal from united

nations to stop with tax on health systems. also natal, foreign ministers gather for 2nd day in brussels, ukraine's top diplomat is also there. he is very clear about what he expects from the allies. gender is very simple. it has only 3 items on it. it's weapons, weapons, and weapons. ah and gabrielle has more come to the program. world leaders have condemned the growing evidence of war. crimes committed by russian forces in ukraine. authorities are still trying to identify hundreds of victims of the atrocities in the town of butch, outside the capital. keith, as russian troops withdraw from the north of the country, locals are coming out of hiding and are taking stock after nearly

a month on the russian occupation. dw ne calmly visited the small town of weak if, which found itself in the middle of intense fighting between russian and ukrainian forces. from late february onwards, he spoke to residence, struggling to make sense of what happened to them. this is we give a small town. it's just emerging from a month and a russian occupation month in which it was on the front lines she, russian and ukrainian forces. toys was sometimes just the words people, or children is as much as many residents of this ukrainian town could think of. a plea to the russian troops to leave them and their families alone, as they hid in their homes, the figure, but the theme new people in this village spent 27 days without water on the 27 days without bread, he grew up like a demon. his wife held out for 3 weeks until the shelling became too much to bear, and they were finally able to leave for a neighbouring village of them up when they got back of the cranium military had

retaken the town, the home had been ransacked by retreating, russian troops with they've got it. everything carried everything out, all that laughter, the walls and the sofa. a 2nd here near you. they've taken all the electronics. i don't even know where they put it all over the months they were here. the russians really changed for the worse, and i'm just disgusted at the thought that they were moving around and eating in my house. at least they didn't sleep here with the food doesn't look doll is available . goodness girl. they just destroyed things for the sake of it, that the refusal never even at the but the impact on this community goes far beyond limited homes, locals to this, they were kidnapped and detained in sellers for days on end. accused by the russians of helping the ukrainian military, several residents is still missing. fear killed,

a priest arrives the neighboring village when supplies for those who have lost almost everything. yeah. but it's not food or money that the locals are asking for . that us, who am i and what was a local, put the people here need tranquilizers with many of them have lost every single v that they spent a lifetime saving for wallace with, with their houses thought their cars. it's all gone into separate from what you both shows as the damp seller where she her husband and her neighbors spent some of the coldest nights of the year. no truth gone yet. and i agree with linda. we weren't just hearing the shelling, we could feel it. everything was shaking. okay, really all we could do is pray that it wouldn't hit us. we just kept praying supplies like these people above and husband going during the weeks and occupation where for the shop stayed shut and leaving home would have meant running a gauntlet or was it that you got us by the time you've been up and down these steps

a few times you lose the well to do anything else. to both tells us she and every one she knows is exhausted. washington was waiting for something. they can't quite define. unable to ever let go. first thing they said we didn't use to understand what it was that people and on boss had been going through all these years stuck in their salus. the last month has taught us what war a says name certificate. for now, the russian army has been pushed back more than a 100 kilometers, but the fear they might return suddenly, as they appeared, is never far away. well, did i curse on it? nix conley filed that report and now joins us from the ukrainian capital. steve, nick, you have been to several town surrounding keith in the wake of the russian withdrawal . and you've interviewed numerous eye witnesses of what have you pieced together about how russian forces are fighting this war? i think the overarching impression is one of chaos. in that town we just saw in the report, the locals told us that most of the russian soldiers didn't know one another. they

were from various different regiments, various different pots, the russian army, and after encountering a much stiffer resistance from the ukrainians, than they expected. they'd suffered heavy losses and had re groups in a celtic fashion, often enough, seemingly not knowing who their commands should be, not knowing where their food is meant to come from. not knowing what the plans were with any kind of advance warning, a sense that the russian command is keeping its own soldiers very poorly informed. they're just busy living in a bubble. often without any mobile phone connection. they've had their own mobile phones taken off them before they and ukraine, and indeed there are stories of them taking phones off ukrainians. sometimes that's to stop. the ukranian civilians may be pasco information to the ukraine army, but also it seems because of enough, they just want to get in touch with her and families to contact their wives, their families back home in russia. and those are calls that are now being tapped by the ukranian authorities. and we're seeing lots of white apps on youtube. and obviously some of them might be a falsifications might be part of the kind of normal propaganda that goes on during

war from the ukrainian side blossom do sound pretty convincing and is talk of looting, talk of even sometimes you hear these white apps where russian soldiers what we believe to be russian soldiers ask their wives. they have read spec home, what they would like them to take from the ukrainian homes that they have access to . we see me images of russian soldiers in bella roost, which is the logistics hub for the operation. this part of ukraine taking huge quantities of stuff, hundreds of kilos in some cases, to the post office and sending it back home to russia, washing machine such as in being sent call, batteries, tv computers, all that kind of stuff. and we've even had reports now from germany today from the german secret services that they have recordings where the russian soldiers are talking about a civilian casualties in ukraine about their interactions with the civilians. here they're a shooting of civilians here. that does seem to back up the accusations coming from the ukranian side and those subtler images. we've seen of civilians lying dead in

the streets of butcher for days and weeks before the russian army had to leave at 10. and a russian forces have now pulled back from those areas around cave where you are and are increasing pressure on the don bus region in the east. and the ukrainian government is urgent civilians to leave. that part of the country that happened was certainly there are lots of trains heading west as they have been since the beginning of this war. and the trains have kept running in spite of bombing in spite fact that trains have been hit. in spite fact that the train staff have lost their lives getting civilians out. but it doesn't seem like the numbers are quite where they need to be. yet, if we can talk about a large scale evacuation, i think the hard reality to grasp here is that most people are going to stay as long as they can and are only going to take these warnings really seriously. once they hear the shelling what they hear, the war on their doorstep, that's the case. that's been the case in recent weeks where people basically have just consistently left when it's too late was already very dangerous to go. we saw

people leaving butcher to pin or losing their lives, getting over a bridge. it had been destroyed and being a wounded in shelling m. so as fear here, the people just don't really want to believe that war is possible on their doorstep . going into this war there, all those warnings come out of washington coming out of western intelligence. the russia was planning an invasion for real estate. this wasn't just fostering. and all those weeks we were in those boarder regence asking people about their plans, what their contingency plans were, how they felt about this. and basically everyone would tell you that this was just a bluff. they didn't want to believe that this was possible. they didn't want to be aware of quite available. they were and people were just focusing on their daily lives until they had another no other option, but to choose between a risky flight from without or staying put nick on there or thing from keith or a. thank you, nick. let's get a picture now of what the military situation looks like at the moment and where russian forces are focusing their souls. here's alex for his fighting with

a broader strategic picture. as the war rages on, russian troops have been forced to make strip, major strategic changes to them military plans. now the biggest change over the last week has been there withdraw from the north east of ukraine. that means for the time being at least giving up on what would be a huge symbolic victory for moscow. seizing the capital cave instead ukrainian forces have regained control of large areas around the capitol. russian troops have almost completely withdrawn from cities like china, heave and also sue me, but they have left them out behind as we have witnessed in places like boucher on the outskirts of keys with russia now accused of war crimes. russia instead is focusing on the east of ukraine and in particular the dumbass region. now the area includes don esque and lou hunt and russian back separatists have held territory there since before the invasion. so far,

the russian troops have made only small gains, their forces from the can keep region, are expected to join them. although the city of car keep itself, it's still being force over. russian troops are using the city of it, c. m, which we can see there and which they captured on april. the 1st they using that as a base from which to do this. and that also said to be regrouping and stock piling supplies. military experts believe that russian forces want to advance from it. see him down to slow, slow vienna, which we can see there. and that would enable them to link up with the dumbass region to cut off ukrainian troops. now in the south, russia has been trying to create a line corridor between crimea, which moscow annexed in 2014 and the dumbass region. but the port city of mariel, pal, it's still a problem for them. yes, it's surrounded by russian forces and has been pretty much reduced to,

but russia still does not have complete control. so it is continuing to conduct intense on tillery and as strike campaigns. and incidentally, there is still thought to be around a $100000.00 civilians trapped there with reports of people now dying from starvation and dehydration. and over in the west, russia has been trying to push towards the city of odessa, in order to cast off ukraine's access to the black sea. russia continues to launch air strikes on the city, bought their land advances have stored at mc your live due to a counter attack by ukrainian forces. so they're being forced back to the city of cason. and just one last point to add, it's being reported that internet access among russian troops is being severely restricted. and that's to try to combat low morale, that low morale is still

a huge problem for russia's war as it did of use as far as wising them. now, since invading ukraine, russia forces of attack more than 100 medical facilities, will tofal conversation says more hospitals and health care facilities have been attacked around the globe this year than ever recorded on world health day. the un body is now calling on competence to avoid targeting health facilities. ah, the moment of bomb exploded in the city of mary awful. and this is what was hit the maternity and children's hospital since the start of russia's invasion, more than 90 health facilities, including hospitals like this one in the city of it's him have been attacked

according to the world health organization, brutal bullock and for some more than once at the start of the war, the main hospital in the town of villanova was hit. days later, it was attacked again. and then again, while dozens of civilians were hiding inside, trying to escape the shelling among them was andry key and he enough head of the hospitals, trauma center who was there with his wife and children with the experience still haunts him. if a viewer was shelling lasted about 20 to 25 minutes and when we get near, you was clear and the kids just

moved it to me just my children and i didn't make it to the basement. we spent all this time in the corridor of the hosp letter. we experienced all the shilling 1st hand i should get in this beer. pavlo cofton yoke is ukraine's former deputy health minister. he now runs an organization that's trying to document each and every hospital attack. well, our main and primary goal is to help our content international community to hold accountable those people who would do those to water cranks. and this is what really makes our team really, really want to related because they feel that they're doing something very important for this war. which asked the war 10 years. so to do the

attacks of prosecution seem a long way off? no, that's a bring in louis saunders, he's with a d w's investigative unit and has been examining evidence of attacks on hospitals and other medical facilities since the onset of the conflict. louis, what are your findings? well, since the beginning of the conflict, we have looked into more than 20 attacks on hospitals, and that is just a mere fraction of the dozens of attacks that have been reported by the w 8 show. now what we've found is a, an apparent disregard for international humanitarian law. on behalf of the russian armed forces, you see hospitals under the geneva conventions are considered protected objects. now, what does that mean? that means the armed forces are, are to take steps to that, that in fact, they are prohibited from attacking hospitals and they must take steps if there is any chance that they do that they must take steps in order to avoid the vision

civilian casualties. and the w 2 has come out just because of the high figure that we've seen in the ukranian conflict. the w h o has come out and said, look, there needs to be an end to these attacks. now, russian armed forces have justified this by claiming that combatants have established firing positions with that legitimate military targets are, have been within the vicinity or around the areas of medical facilities. however, through the evidence and visual material that we've investigated and reviewed. and also the eye witnesses that we've spoken to that just isn't the case. in fact, it's quite the opposite. and the material that we've seen suggest that the russian on forces may have committed war crimes there. and that there's also a pattern to this, which means it could be part of a larger strategy to win the war in ukraine. just could you walk us through one of the cases that you have examined. indeed an interesting case is,

is the case of an attack on the central district hospital of villanova. and in this case, the attack was happened early on february 27th to be exact and it was shelled. now a couple of days later, a civilian started to pour into the hospital expecting sanctuary, hoping that the russian forces would not attack a protected object. however, on march 1st rush and shelling continued on this hospital and we know this because we spoke to eye witnesses. we begin reviewed the visual material regarding this case. and the interesting aspect though, is that it presents a clear case where the russian armed forces are, have effectively tried to say gun in there and say no, no, there were military legitimate military targets. in fact, there's even russian media that came out sent out. so let's say a so called correspondent there who described the narrative saying the actually, the damage in the pictures that you're seeing right now was done by the ukranian

national guard establishing a firing position on there. and everything that we've seen just says that just isn't the case. louis just briefly and what kind of evidence are you using? so the evidence that we're reviewing is a mix of images, videos, eye witness accounts, satellite imagery. and we basically put this all together to establish a couple of parameters. for example, we look at things are, are there any legitimate military targets in the area and end? and the reality is, we haven't seen that in any of the cases that we've reviewed. now the reason why we look at this, for example, particular parameter is because under international humanitarian law, hospitals lose their protected status when enemy or combatants take position within their or are using the facility in order to, to enact violence within the war. now, as i mentioned or we just haven't seen that,

however it is, it is an important aspect to highlight because it's something that we've seen repeatedly from the russian side that they try to justify their attacks on hospitals, which is absolutely prescribed under international humanitarian law. but just to find out that there were legitimate military targets there, but we just haven't seen fit abuse investigative reporter louis sanders there. thank you. louis ukraine's foreign minister. demitra caliber has renewed coals full western countries to supply heavier weaponry. as he meets with natal ministers in brussels, the defense alliances weighing the next steps as it was the conflict could drag on for months if not years earlier, the ukrainian foreign minister and nato chief young stoughton back dressed reporters. it is an urgent need her to further support ukraine and her at our meeting later on with the nato foreign ministers. i'm certain that we will address

the need for her more air defense system. so and to thank weapons cert lighter, but those are heavier or weapons and many different types of support to ukraine. my agenda is very simple. it has only 3 items on it, it's weapons, weapons, and weapons. we are confident that the best way to help ukraine now is to provide it was all necessary to contain put in and to defeat russian army in ukraine. for warner that sir, bring in no ha, correspondent, a jack park in brussels. when nato is headquartered, a jack, we've just heard it, weapons, weapons, weapons. that's what ukraine, once you install it back, says he expects ne till to deliver. so the 2 sides really on the same page here. well, they are, the nato secretary general wants those weapons to be delivered. but what we heard from the ukrainian foreign minister attending that meeting just later on in that in that brief press statement was

a finger pointed directly at germany. he said that germany needs to do more. he said that while there's time in berlin, there's no time in care of and that's because it's widely a thought that germany is sort of holding up some of the arms deliveries that the ukrainians would like. demitra, coo labor said that the choice is for, for the nato military alliance of the western powers as they either on the ukrainians. this is the deal they on the ukrainian send in all the weapons, the heavy weaponry, anti tank weapons on sierra weapons that they're demanding, and they, the ukrainians will sacrifice their lives and, and fight in this war to prevent the conflict from spilling outside of the ukraine's borders that was sort of his very, very strong message, the german foreign minister on away into those meetings said she understood the cause. and there was she sort of thought about the feelings and the understanding that they have the ukrainians, that they're aware that the war that fighting is extremely difficult at the moment . no, as you've been saying,

a ukrainian government has repeatedly been complaining that western leaders in a particular plenty of germany continued to drag their feet. let's play some of the reactions in brussels to that criticism today. them and he didn't talk owing and wake up every day and go to bed every night. not just with the feeling, but with these horrible images of people. i mean families, old people, young people being palm shot and murdered in cold blood if they hadn't done as i understand where that feeling is coming from. and i can hardly fathom how the ukrainian government and the people living in ukraine can possibly injure that day in and day at least you been helped yet, hadn't, can. semanski had a lot of support, but what he really needs is more arms less applause or more so clearly officials in brussels there until the german foreign minister have lot

of understanding for the ukrainian so. so why aren't they're moving faster? well, quite simply get scared and worried that they don't want to be brought into direct conflict with russia themselves, that this sort of fine balance by supporting the ukrainians in their war and being dragged into the war themselves and how that might be viewed in moscow. what the consequences of that could be, and that's the delicate balance. interesting me as well get. we've just seen any peas in the european parliament vote overwhelmingly in favor of ending oil and gas imports in the european union. this is part of the sanctions that the you is talking about. leaders of the 2070 you countries are not willing to go that far at the moment. we have ambassadors meeting here in brussels. they started their discussions on the 3rd round, the sanctions that would only include a ban on import on coal, but that's any, i'm 4 percent of the energy imports on russia. so that's where you're going. there's

a lot going on today. later. the discussions are right weapons in the you call to those discussions about how far the sanctions can go. and all of this is a head of an important meeting, a visit. in fact, of the european commission president, who's on her way to keep to meet with the ukrainian president brought him, is lensky, a highly significant meeting. and she's going to want to go there with new sanctions behind her. of course we wanna keep you updated about all those developments going on in brussels stack paragraph. thank you very much. and we'll continue to update you on the war in ukraine in general. but me, while they're here are some of the other stories we're following for you with this are german lawmakers have rejected legislation to introduce compulsory covered 19 vaccination for every one over 60. the proposal voted on was already a compromise. health minister calatrava initially argued from mandate for all adults to boost the country's vaccination. a caught in turkey as suspended the

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as if there are different forms of time? time. ah, the phenomenon a dimension? if we know we won't live forever, an illusion. about time presenting futures past starts april 14th on d. w. ah ah ah hello and welcome to focus on europe and we begin with the war that continues to ravage large parts of ukraine in recent days, violence there has reached a new and even more shocking level in the small town of booth char, close to the capital key if russian troops appeared to have brutally massacred