[000:00:00;00] ah ah, this is d w. news coming to live from berlin. a crucial week ahead in the war for ukraine. president vladimir zalinski tells ukrainians that russia is preparing for a full scale assault on the east of the country. so lansky says ukraine's fate hinges on whether it gets more weapons from the west. plus surveying the devastation after weeks of russian bombardment, russian forces have left the northern city of china, eat. but residents tell d w,

they tear the army might still come back. and france is set for repeat the 2017 presidential election. ronald centrist leader amanda wilma comes out on top in the 1st round of voting, but he faces a strong challenge from paul. right. kennedy marine, elephant ah hello, i'm terry martin. thanks for joining us. eastern areas of ukraine are bracing for what they fear will be a new russian offensive. ukranian president, believe me, zalinski warned that russian troops are moving to carry out large scale military operations. in eastern new crane. russian bombardments struck various sites across the country through the weekend and denise pro ukraine's port largest city missiles destroyed the local airport and wounded several people. meanwhile, investigators continued to exude bodies from mass graves around the capital key. if

ukraine authorities say more than 1200 bodies have but been found so far, following to withdrawal of russian forces from the area. our correspondent, alexandra from nomine is covering this story and joins us now from kia electronic. we keep hearing that russia is about to launch a major offensive in the east and south of the country. how is ukraine preparing for this? ukraine is strengthening its defenses in the east and the south of the country sending more troops there in a clear anticipation of a major russian offensive there. the authorities are also urging her civilians 3rd to leave as long as they can, according to the generalist, half of the ukrainian armed forces. sir, the russian army is trying to break the defenses of the strategically important city of ian. and they are trying to capture the city of my you pull that,

as you know, has been under seach for many weeks now. and a clear goal here seems to be for the russians to take control of the dunbar. sir area of the don barza region including her donnette sca that a mask and lo, hunter, cur regents. russian forces have left a trail of destruction arctic sondra in areas that they've withdrawn from in the north north of chia. you've been there. he's been traveling different to different places there. what have you seen? we went, for instance, to the city of chinese. if yesterday the city was under russian siege for many weeks after, for some period of time, it was completely cut off from the outside world. and the people there told us they didn't have water, no, it left electricity. and they suffered from hunger. some went on for days without

eating any think many areas of the city are completely destroyed is called a hospital residential houses. but judge for yourself, let's have a look in our report from trinity heath the city of journey, his after weeks of siege and have his shelling by russian forces. we meet with lana and valentino sapient coin a local hospital with they survived, but were both injured in an air strike that hit their house for the ballistic wounded some one logan took less than a 2nd. loosely, sweet. we just heard a whistle your creek boom. the symbol i screamed get down was uncovered. my son seemed like little savoy. he's in school. valentin still has surgeries ahead of him sit lana is doing a little bit better. she shows me pictures of their house before and after the attack. this done up on why did they attack us?

i don't know, we didn't do anything bad, where civilians are still the quinn, islam. the hospital itself was not spirit either bought and russia load. the hat of the trauma center here tells us after russian strike his team struggled to keep going with you all before we worked without water and electricity, hulu would headlamps on and took care of those seeking medical assistance. and also it was very hard on me, but we stayed here and did what was necessary for all williams social medicine. and the situation worse than when russian forces completely encircled the city. residents tell us journey heath and you are to weeks of fresh and siege and just barely came through. water and electricity were almost completely cut off. no age could come in. local officials say at times the city buried up to 100 people in

a single day. some of them were killed by russian troops. others died because they could not reach the hospital. due to heavy shelling in the local morgue, edward slept please using refrigerated trucks for the bodies that still needs to be identified or pick up by relatives. dubois thought they were, you co, many people left the country to escape the fighting. that they are not in ukraine for them and cannot get back to bury their relatives escape from walnut. so that's why there are still many bodies here to preserve the right with you was that would be those who come here to claim their loved ones are overwhelmed. by grief, like egos, family, he was a husband, a father, a brother, shut debt by russian soldiers warranted them. he was the best buy there he could have. i was so proud of him. and now something this terrible has happened to his mother, what,

death and destruction is all that is left after the withdrawal of russian forces from germany heath. and what those who survived your most is that the russian army might return. alexandra, given the atrocities that were committed in areas under siege by the russians is the ukrainian government still willing to negotiate with moscow on ending this war . yes, they are. and the ukrainian president has made it clear repeatedly how hard it is to think about resuming the talk, sir, is to think about sitting together with russian representatives after what happened in butcher, already and catch any heath other places. however, he also said that it's important to talk because what the country needs is, of course a ceasefire and everyone here once the war 2 and alexander. thank you very much for your reporting. our correspond,

alexander phenomena there in keith. and here's while the stories related to the war in ukraine. austrian chancellor karl ni hammer, his re heading to moscow to discuss the conflict and ukraine with russian president vladimir putin. the meeting follows a weekend visit by ne hammer to the cleaning cap of key f. as a militarily neutral country, austria is hoping to act as a mediator in the ongoing crisis grains present. one mister lansky spoke by phone with german chancellor, all of shorts on sunday to discuss further sanctions against russia. lance, he said he was glad that germany had strengthen it, support ukraine, but criticism continued to lobby shoals to put a ban on russian energy imports. roy, or, if you won't, bank says ukraine's economy is set to shrink by 45 percent this year. the war was forced, ah, has forced round half of the countries businesses to close an export to plummet rural banks,

calling for massive financial support for ukraine. hundreds of children have been killed and wounded since the start of the war in ukraine, and many thousands more had been traumatized by the violence they've witnessed. but there's only limited capacity for professional treatment with many facilities destroyed or a back you way to because of russian attacks. the w corresponded. young philip shoulds visited the children's psychiatric clinic in the western city, i believe, and spoke to some of the young patients there. when words failed pictures, sometimes help for weeks live eats largest. psychiatric kleenex has been treating more and more children with severe waterfall. thus elaina comes from cloud, keith, she saw rockets destroy her home toned and kill many people. she was evacuated, but her parents remain in the embattled city. what are you drawing right now? this is the ukrainian flag way. i your drawing the ukrainian flag. and because we will win him,

the therapist say that's drawing helps many children to process their experiences. they often cannot talk about it. but even small children perceive the terrible things around them. i will movies, will you? my parents and grandparents often try to gently explain to the children what is going on. well then sometimes they act like it's all just an exercise of a game or something. but then the children reply, no, we live in a war. this is a real war. i'm here again, watch hertz, the doctor most the children are constantly searching for explanations for the horror. and many begin to doubt themselves. even begin to do sometimes the kids think that this has something to do with their behavior. that it just happened because they did something wrong with what did we then try to explain to them that they live in a free, independent country. we didn't break any borders. we didn't behave aggressively towards other countries, warmer. so it's not their fault at all. you can even come across to them. the

children often have sleeping disorders who would sway since become a prophetic. many ask every day if they can ever go back to their old lives. i'm so sorry about my country. i used to live in such a beautiful city. now everything is destroyed. exxon us t and tries to reach out to the children with games and music. and they are often amazed about the resilience of the young patients. one of this league that, that sometimes we ask ourselves, who is treating whom old, are we treating them or as a treating us can we get works in both directions even if they give us so much of a if they weren't with us, we would be much worse off more when i bought the pillow santa has learned through her work that dr. sort of gift children false hope the situation is bad. and unfortunately, the most innocent of all, we'll probably have to live with this for a long time. a spring and pete wall sheer, he's ukraine, country director for the charities,

save the children and joins us from live eve up. pizza. thanks ring with us. i understand you spent the past couple weeks in the embattled east of the country. what did you find there? yeah, thank you very much. yes, i was indeed i was in a city called nicholas ah. where just previously the night before, i'm at the children's referral hospital. i at least 10 missiles and hit in around the hospital grounds and had made significant damage to the children's operating theatre. at the time of his attack, there was a 9 year old and a 15 year old girl. and that were receiving a trauma surgery from a previous attack. one girl had was having a bullets removed from her on the other was having trouble removed from a stomach when the missiles came in and hit the theater directly. ah, we are aware the both these children ended up in intensive care, but i can please the place to tell you today the both children now fortunately

stable and recovering it this sounds truly horrific. the, the war is hard for adults to cope with pete, what sort of special challenges do children face in dealing with it? well, any war is war against children. because children are the most innocence, when it comes to war. and they need, you know, additional support, particularly health care. but we've already heard from w, h o, that 103 health facilities and doctors have been damaged or destroyed. and we also need access to learning to, to know, to continue with their development. and we've also heard from the ministry of education that now 928 schools have been damaged or destroyed. i think you would agree with me a school should not be a place of fear, injury or death should be a place of learning, a place where children can be protected and developed. right now some predict that this war could drag on for a long time. what can be done,

paid to better protect children in ukraine, and prepare them for what's still to come up. well, 1st and foremost, save the children and humanitarian partners. cool for an immediate cease fire of the hostilities of this war at this war against children. and begin the process to enable access for all humanitarian partners to get to these areas the hard to reach . you don't ask law husk, you know your march april. ah, your car key if so that we can get is immediate age that people need now to save their lives. but also to start that early stage of recovery. how much of ukraine's basic infrastructure, including health and education is being destroyed. as you mentioned, how is that impacting the ability to provide a central care for children in the situation? this war is having a devastating impact on the country's ability to support children in their

essential services that he needs such as health care and education. the ministry of education has prioritized an online learning, but of course for online learning children need access access to the internet and access to devices to enable the online learning to occur. and that is certainly one area that say with children's look at it to respond to provide that access, but also the device to enable the online learning. he thank you very much. that was pete wal shaw country director for ukraine for safe the children. thank you. european union, foreign ministers are meeting today in luxembourg to discuss ways to expand their support for you. grant. even fairs of foreign affairs commissioners, rosa barrell has proposed a further 500000000 euros and weapons and other military equipment. ministers are also expect to discuss more sanctions and plan to speed up an end to russian oil imports. you announce

a battle russian coal last friday agreement to hold oil and gas imports any time soon that could prove much harder. i thought that was something you a spring in dw correspond, christine mcgraw, who is covering that you for ministers meeting and joined us from luxembourg, christine more sanctions on russia, more help for your crane. what are you for ministers discussing their concretely terry? they are going to be discussing more sanctions, but they're not going to agree on that new 6th package. so to say ab, as you mentioned, they have already targeted whole. our oil would be next on the list. there's been a lot of emphasis on gas over the last few months, but if, if it comes down to it, oil revenues account for more than that of gas. so the pressure is on for the european union to go further than it has already gone. certainly from some member states who would like for the block to do more. they will be talking about that 6 package, although they will not be finalizing his. at sedate they have

a special guest at visiting at this meeting today. that is the chief prosecutor of the international criminal court kareem khan. the european union wants to assist the i, c. c, through its mission and ukraine in its prob, off war crimes. current crime will be addressing foreign ministers here today. terry. no, we are 6 weeks into a war that has massive implications for each member states. how unified or the 27. you countries in their stance on the war? well, the unity is there in terms of everybody agreeing on on, on just the, the atrocities that are happening in ukraine. they've seen it, for example, as the chief was it of under lion and joseph brown, who was cheering today's meeting travel there. he's going to be feeding back some of what he saw to, to be foreign ministers here today. so there isn't any agreement on the fact that russia needs to stop what it is doing in ukraine,

but the issue becomes on how exactly to go about persuading the russians to stop or punishing at the russians. there are some member states law simply not happy with what the block has done so far, that the package of sanctions, they want more banks to be targeted. they want to compete embargo on all of russia's energy, for example. but of course, are there are different interests at play for different members state say even the colon bug that we are now talking about. are they really wrangled over and it's not going to happen in about 3 to 4 months time. even that was an issue. so there are certainly a differing views here today. of course, we know that the austrian chancellor is visiting moscow while he did inform at e leadership about that it's not something that some estates agree with. for example, there lithuanian, foreign minister before going into the meeting today, talked about the fact that he didn't see how productive that it's the size would be . so they are sydney divisions, ad syria, and you see it. and as they haggle over this next, a round of sanctions are that everybody agrees needs to be much stronger because of what's going on in ukraine right now. christine, thank you very much. as always our correspond, christine,

while they're in luxembourg, in french a manuel. nicole has emerged as the clear front runner after sundays, 1st round of boating in the countries presidential election. interior ministry figures give me a call just over 27 percent of the boat. as far i challenger marina pern receive just over 23 percent of contenders. now go through to the 2nd round. on april 24th . turn other candidates from across the political spectrum have been eliminated. though my count did come out on top in this 1st round of voting, the pen dramatically narrowed the president's lead in opinion polls. ah, he may have won the 1st round, but for a manual mac crone, this was no time for a victory lap. down, don't be fooled, nothing is decided. yes, we barely a month ago, micron looks like a shoe in. instead,

the incumbent president ended up in the fight for his political life, with critics accusing him of focusing on global crises rather than the ones at home . at doing okay, but the you to all those who chose to abstain or to vote on the extreme server. because i want to convince you in the coming day 70, that our project is a much stronger respons 30 than that at the far right lot. and there scare munger. it was iffy. you don't, you can count on, you know, my growing anger of a rising inflation created an opening for the populace marine le pen as she softened her image as a far right nationalist and recast herself as a champion for struggling households. now that when a dual, during this 1st round, the french people have clearly wanted to arbitrate a fundamental choice between 2 opposite visions of the future. either the division,

the injustice and the disorder, imposed by men or my call for the benefit of a few or the gathering of the french people around social justice and protection. guaranteed by fraternal framework around the age old idea of nation and people millionaire. the unless you're a defer with micron headed for a potentially bruising run off. he's hoping to stave off the threat from the right with the help of more mainstream parties, but his biggest boost could come from an unlikely backer. far left lita, jean luc, melanie sean, who came in 3rd with over a 5th of the vote. coming down on that. we will never lose her trust in democracy. so you must not give a boat to mrs. le pen name. we must not give one boat to mrs. le pen robin in an election that saw the extremes celebrate and traditional parties flatline. the battle lines for france,

the future have been drawn a spring in our correspondence. sonya fall nica here in paris, san yet president con has normally narrowly won the 1st round in this election. is it clear what his strategy will be to come out on top in the runoff? you right, i mean he's natalie one in the 1st stone and that 2nd that the run off of is predicted to be a very tight race. and i think for macro, what this means is now he really needs to get into camping and fight for a vote. really hit the campaign trail, and this is actually what he's been accused of. not doing so far. you know, he entered the slate very, the threes very late. he said he was little preoccupied with the war in ukraine. he's run a very muted campaign. he's hotly debated policies with his rivals. i think all that now will need to change his his team is already scrambling to set up a few rallies and, and t v appearances and their strategy with rival marine le pen seems to be,

you know, attacking her as being a kind of pull protein candidate given her pos links to the kremlin and portraying her as anti eel, marine le pen, ah, the main candidate, the far right candidate, a main candidate, the recall will be up against her. in 2 weeks, she gained massive momentum in recent weeks. what's her message to french voters? you're right, marine. the pen has really torn down her body's radical image. she's, you know, pitched herself as a more moderate candidate. she's really deflected attention away from kind of nationalists rhetoric issues a french national identity and anti immigration agenda. and she is really kind of focused on, on the one issue that is really exercising french motors. and that is the rising cost of living. you know, she's crystal, crisscross the country. metal workers on the right and left promised to create more jobs, put more money in their pockets, cap prices,

and all the popular kids needed with waters. you mentioned the ukraine war that mccaul has been focusing on that a bed. what role did the ukraine war play as an election topic or in this campaign? well, i think the was certainly hadn't impact in the initial weeks after the russian invasion, you know, macro was spearheading european diplomatic efforts. he was, you know, speaking to international leaders, speaking to ludovic, putting all that, give him a lot of visibility and i think he also got a bump in the bulls because of lack of what does he know approving of his handling of the crisis. he was seen as, as a statesman as a safe bet of hands to lead the country to the crisis. well, i think that effect has really one off. i think the mean warning for, for waters in france is really the, the canada consequences of the war. the facing rising inflation high energy prices struggling to pay bills. so i think the economic consequences of the war are

greater than the actual war. and the possibility of escalation correspond. shawnee panica there in paris. and here smother stories making headlines around the world to day. in pakistan, lawmakers are set to elect shapers, shari as prime minister, the leader of the center is pakistan. muslim league is the younger brother of former prime minister and no are sharing. there were protests after cricket star turned politician m. ron con, was ousted in a no competence vote on sunday. it was surprise reverse. all twitter is announced that billionaire, ellen musk will not be joining. the company's board ask was recently revealed to be the social media platforms biggest shareholder, but twitter, c, e, o said, mosque had decided not to take a seat on the board as expected. no explanation was offered and the ukranian couple who were separated by the war in their country have written,

reunited in leave to get married. constantine stayed in ukraine to fight while his bride alena fled. the country the newly weds, planned to separate again after their sunday ceremony. would shaw with helena returning to germany, while konstantin stays to defend ukraine. paulina said she is proud of her new husband but praised for his safe return. every day you're watching dw news, just reminder the top stories were falling for you this hour. ukrainian president, a lot of me is zalinski is warning that russian troops are preparing to carry out large scale operations in the east of the country. shelling over the weekend, targeted sites including the airport and need pro authority say they have zoomed more than 1200 bodies from mass graves around the capital of kip. following the withdrawal of russian forces from the region,

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