ah, ah ah, this is dw news lie from berlin, ukraine and russia agree on so many terry and corridors to evacuate civilians from cities and ukraine's east and south east. more and more people are fleeing the region, but thousands are still trapped as fee as grow of a new russian offensive on the way. we get the latest from our correspondent on the ground. also on the program, the french election. amanda will not call has cast his vote in francis presidential election as he seeks a 2nd term poll so far, arrive rival marine le pen only

a couple of points behind him. ah well, come on, monica jones. good to have you with us is the new crane is bracing for a new russian offensive. officials have announced an agreement on humanitarian corridors to allow thousands of people to leave before it's too late. more than 100000 are estimated to still be stuck in the city of maria paul, which has been under intense bombardment for weeks. people in the city of trauma tours have been taking many buses to leave the city. a missiles struck the train station killing dozens, ukrainians are also fleeing the city of la hans and the don boss, region. satellite photos taken before the weekend show a convoy of hundreds of russian military vehicles heading to the don bus, making the task of creating civilians. all the more urgent

of a more i'm joined now by our dw corresponded rebecca ritters who has just arrived back in the viv, rebecca, what's the latest you hear from new hans? as you rightly point out, want to grow just got back from not from no hands but from an area called denise, the pro city me pro, where people from the la hans and on beth's region evacuate through. and we know that the governor of the hands of that region has ordered people to get out while they still can. but he said that 30 percent of people are still they're still in the area and to and staying port. i spoke to one young man ice as we were getting on the train in ne proved to come back to live if he was from ne pro himself. but he was talking about his friends in our hands and done yet who were just tired and they were going to stay where they were, because they already lost everything in the 2014 war. and they just weren't prepared to do it again that they were going to stay and fight. he broke down in

tears as he was telling me this story. obviously, thinking about what might happen to those regions and to his friends. every one really worried that the scenes that were saying from mary paul from around key of the butcher from butcher that that will happen to their cities and towns as well. of course, i mean, and destiny pro is, is of course, a central eastern city in ukraine where you've been, yesterday it is serving as the hub for the internally displaced ukrainian. so you met this young man. what else have you witnessed there? where are these people, the refugees who go they're coming from and where are they headed? as i mentioned, that is near pro is a hub for people coming from danielle and no hands also from the southern upper region region where mary paul is situated, ah, many of these people coming from there then not knowing where they're actually going to end up. but they can actually stay in the pro either. the mayor of ne pro has ordered that city to also evacuate all the women and children. and while they

still can, because they are worried about this russian offensive, that they're expecting to start taking place in the, in the coming days. and they are worried about the entire southeast region. we saw hundreds of people at the train station and, and they're saying that they're saying every single day we were at one of the refugee shelters there. but they did temporary places for people to get some rest and have a warm meal before they head on. further west, but many of the people i spoke to just didn't know where they were gonna end up. now you traveled back by train. ah, what did like to travel by train through a country add to war from central ukraine all the way to western ukraine. and the viv i have to say it was a actually a very lovely journey of i could even say that in this time, i mean, you know, if i, if i didn't know about the war on the journey itself i, i certainly didn't get that sense. although there were a lot of people on the train coming west, not so many people on the train i,

when we were traveling in the other direction. understandably a one thing i, i didn't mention was of course, the tensions that were raised at any pro train station yesterday. we weren't able to film ah, inside the station, or leave the platforms with people getting on the train because of the worries and the fees. it's something like the missile attack on the train station and cremmit tours might actually happen there. so definitely tensions are at the train station on the train itself. not so much. lots of sad faces, understandably, people being separated from their friends and families. and the only thing that really gave it away is that the train travels much slower than in ordinary times so that it even needs to stop for whatever reason. if there's some shelling or anything, it is able to stop and evacuate people off the train wreck rebecca written there. thank you so much for this 1st hand report to rebecca in live if and here are some other developments regarding the war in ukraine. a grave

containing at least 2 civilian bodies has been found a bushel bar village in the achieve the latest grave to be reported discovered after russian forces withdrew from the area to concentrate its forces on the east. oh, francis has called for an easter cease fire in ukraine and his thirst major palm sunday mass isn't the start of the pandemic. he told some $50000.00 catholic faithful that a ceasefire would pay the way for peace through real negotiation. international donors has pledged more than 10000000000 euros to help you, cranium, refugees, ukrainian president vladimir lensky, made a virtual appearance at a donor conference in the polish capital war. so the funds are a combination of donations and loans and are intended for projects run by the united nations and local aid organization is standing up. why? i'm so glad where so far, almost 2 and a half 1000000 ukrainian refugees have made it across the border to poland most has

stayed in warsaw alone, help us support roughly 300000 people, which requires equal measures of painstaking organisation and heartfelt compassion . the next report takes us to the largest refugee center in poland. she may be safe now, but she's still somewhat lost. diana fled the car. keith region, 1st to western ukraine than to warsaw above is coming out of scholarship book on grandma told me that after we had left that she saw tanks driving past our farm show was gosh, what, what are up to 20000 people can be accommodated here at this exhibition center near warsaw. it's a private initiative supported by the local government. the trade fair employees now work as helpers for the ukrainian refugees, screenshare bubbles on you, so they need help. they are the victims, brokovich, marshall. we have to show our compassion in case potent knocks on our door. should

she brought him? putting his apple goggle mushrooms, the refugees get checked in at a reception desk. many of the trade fair employees are also ukrainians, who've been in poland for years, which makes communication easier. ana is from outside keith. she came here with her son dom your who is nearly 4 by years like danica. he said, i'm afraid of the mean tanks. he and he hid under the covers from the sound of the bombs audible. hopefully, we'll forget all of this. yeah, there's thought i'd have done that example did that, that anyone who is registered can get free plane or bus tickets at various counters headed for germany, for example, italy or like here sweeten. there's a need for people to leave early, you know, follow as we so took him amazing. have received so many refugees, but we need to generalize them according to officials. in warsaw, the capital alone has taken in 300000 refugees given to me. if we are faced with

further waves of refugees, every one in europe must share the responsibility of $40.00. around 2400000 ukrainians have fled to poland. most of them are staying many ukrainians, have relatives in poland. a shame situation. so the g o some 800000 people can be easily integrated into polish society. this won't cause tension or potential aversion sheet, but it depends on the number. these will. there's medical care here at the exhibition center shower facilities, a bit of respond after a dangerous escape, and it won't be ending here as more people continue to arrive. and here is, i'm with stories making headlines around the world. is rarely forces conducted rates and the occupied west bank following a space of recent palestinian attacks in israel. the developments commerce, tensions between israelis and palestinians have escalated during the muslim holy

month of ramadan, which this year coincides with major jewish and christian holidays. pakistan's parliament has voted prime minister in wrong hon. out of office a former cricket star tried to stop the no confidence load by the solving parliament. but the supreme court ruled that was unconstitutional parliament or meet on monday to elect a new prime minister concern over ukraine. on the rise on the cost of living is expected to shape the outcome on the 1st round of francis presidential election to day. until just weeks ago, polls were suggesting an easy win for pro european interest. president manuel my call, but now far ride marine le pen is projected to close the gap and could potentially unseat mccall and the run off. unless one of them gets more than half of the nationwide boat, there will be a 2nd and decisive round between the top 2 candidates. before you dw, sonia sonya found, the car went out to gauge the mood. among peroration voters busy basically for me

and my new and my car is the only candidate who has the statue ever president, where you and we saw this with the ukraine war. i don't see any other candidate who could face putin. i go, the distance won't be broken or can votes again for him and even mcgraw even know for, for do you couldn't. who are people lou most knew that he did nothing and he was useless. local mo, lot of me, the main issue of the election is ecology. i think it will be one of the great challenges of the next years here. they're pushing any unique cause. sure, it's immigration. it's the problem of lacking solidarity problems. your love. so he does, it won't pull out it's purchasing power because we're seeing that with the rise and gas prices, more and more french people are having difficulty getting through the month. the more i would for women racquel no question and out to buy that. even if there are lots of issues with what has been done, the situation with a can, one needs to have somebody very strong to defend the european state and dw

correspondence on your veronica joins me now from central perez or sonya turn out so far seems rather low and what is probably most striking is that just before polls opened, a 3rd of the voters were still undecided that according to estimates, what explains this indecisiveness? well, i think part of the problem, monica, is that fun voters are simply quite tired after you know, 2 years of the time to make this war raging in europe, the pan. because also meant that this election campaign has been quite subdued that have been fewer rallies, fewer live debates, not so much, st. canvassing and many french people who have spoken to say that says that this election feels very different from the last one in 2017. that was a big, a buzzard on emanuel macro at the time of seemingly came out of nowhere and became the youngest president of france. i think another thing that is added to water uncertainty in france is that we no longer have a really clear cut divide between the tradition of political right and the left in

france in macros. centrist platform is essentially up ended traditional parties and kind of swept away old political royalties and i think created a void for kind of dangerous populous rhetoric. and there you lead straight to to marilla pen a vote for her. and her far right party is seen by many as a protest vote, but how likely are people to stick to that voted the 2nd round? well, i think marie lapel has really tried to torn down her party's radical image. she is moved away from some of the fire rights or more extreme positions. just try to put yourself as a much more moderate and credible candidate. and unlike mcroy, i think she's run a very slick grassroots campaign focusing on the one issue that really matters to french waters. and that is really the, the rising cost of a cost of living. you know, she's been traveling around the country, meeting a blue collar workers from the left and the white, appealing to them saying,

you know, that she's going to create jobs and, and put more money in the pockets and, and cap prices. and i think all that is resonating with some borders, and i think the big change in this election is that there is no longer a stigma of wanting for the far right. that is what i've also heard from voters here and the outcome of this election. obviously is also very important for the rest of the european union. when can we expect to have a 1st result suddenly of this 1st round of voting? well we'll have the 1st result actually this evening at 8 o'clock bowers time that we have an exit ball, which is which will be quite accurate. and we have a pretty good idea, i think off who makes it into that 2nd round. now, all the pools of projecting, like you mentioned, that we'd see kind of her repeat off the last 2017 election of face off between macro and the pin. and the same, of course, the pin really closing in and macro said could be a cliff hanger of an election. i think water zeal will have to decide whether they give macro a 2nd chance and water for stability and continued t or whether the,

you know, ops for a more radical change of course. right? dw correspondence in your family come from paris there. thank you so much. it wanting to de leon use up next sports life meets young syrian refugees in germany who have turned to boxing it to help deal with trauma and discrimination. i'm monica jones and i'll be back with the latest of the top of the hour with every day counts for us and for our planet. global ideas is on its way to bring you more conservation. how do we make cities kreger? how can.