[000:00:00;00] ah ah this is dw news live from berlin, tens of thousands of war, dad and matthew, poll alone, that's the estimate of ukrainian president follow to me to landscape after weeks of russian shelling, which have reduced the southern port city to rubble. it's thought tens of thousands of people are still trapped in germany. foreign minister says ukraine needs more heavy weapons at a meeting of the new college. berlin has been criticized for being too slow in

providing military aid. also coming up france is set for a repeat of the 2017 presidential election, ronald centrist leader, and manuel. my call comes out on top in the 1st round of voting, but he faces a strong challenge from far right candidate. not even the pen and pakistan's parliament convenes to elect a new prime minister. shabazz sharif is the favorite for the post, but whoever is chosen space is a difficult task in restoring political stability. ah, i'm pablo felice. welcome to the program. ukrainian, president volunteered zalinski says tens of thousands of people may have died in the besieged port city of matthew paul. he may be on verified claim and coal to south korean lawmakers where he appealed for more weapons. the city of matthew pole

has been under endless russian bombardment for weeks with many buildings destroyed and basic services cut off. meanwhile, russia now appears to be focusing its military efforts in the break away don, boss, region, local pro russian leaders there have warned that efforts to quote, liberate the region will be intensified. while we're joined now by our correspondent, alexander phenomena who is in keith, i alexander good to see you now at tens of thousands of people may have been killed in russia's assault on the southeastern city of mary. you pull as president lansky said, could you tell us more on that? president's zalinski spoke about said the humanitarian disaster about the situation unfolding in a city of my yoko. when he was addressing south korean lawmakers and we have to stress that the city has been under almost constant shelling by the russian forces

since the beginning of the war. and as you just mentioned, tens of thousands are still trapped there without water electricity, without foods. and of course now we can assume, and that is what the ukranian government is anticipating that the russian forces are preparing for a major offensive there to capture the city of new pool. and to take control of to hold the nets, creegan, to establish, to secure and lend rich between their forces in the eastern part of ukraine and their forces in the, in the next crimea. and that is why the government of ukraine is so alarmed that the situation in my you pool could get worse and that the life, all, all of the people trapped there are of course, at stake. now, alexander, russian force is left a trail of destruction following their withdrawal from the north. now you've been visiting those areas. tell us a little bit about what you seen there. well,

yesterday we visited the city of cheney here, sir, north of a key of the city was under a russian thieves for many weeks and for, for almost 2 weeks, the city was completely cut off from the outside world and people there, they didn't have water. they didn't have electricity. people there told me that there was suffered from hunger that they went on for 3 days without eating anything . many parts of churney heaved a word destroyed among them, squirrels, a hospital, residential areas, but judge for yourself. here's our report from tourney. heath the city of journey his after weeks of siege and have his shelling by russian forces. we meet svetlana and valentino sapient coin a local hospital where they survived. but were both injured in an earth strike that

hit their house for the ballistic wounded. some one look less than a 2nd. loosely sweet. we just heard a whistle your creek. boom. lea symbol i screamed get down. was uncovered. my son filmic little some boy. he's in school. valentin still has surgeries ahead of him. svetlana 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 low. 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. also, it was very hard on what we stayed here and did what was necessary for all

a will of social wellness. 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 aid 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 with using refrigerated trucks for their bodies. that still needs to be identified or pick up by relatives. a durable author, they will you follow. 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 heard of her

xerox. listen, 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. when he was the best buy there, you could have, i was so proud of him. and now something this terrible has happened to his mother wouldn't. death and destruction is all that is left after the withdrawal of russian forces from turned the heath. and what those who survived the most is that the russian army might return some dreadful images there, alexander, and have given the atrocities that have come to life in areas under siege by the russians is the ukrainian government still willing to negotiate with moscow on ending this war surely they are even though the queen

and president has repeatedly stressed how difficult, how hard it is to consider resuming talks with the russians because of what happened in boucher bra, junker chimney heath. however, he also said that even it, even though it is a almost impossible to imagine, to talk to somebody who is torturing you, country as he put it. it is important to seize any po, put unity to and this war. and that is, of course, what every one he wants to see. this war ended. however, we also have to add that so far talk 3rd between the russian and the ukraine delegation has not brought that they have not brought any results. alexander, a phenomena in cave. thank you. or meanwhile, european union, foreign ministers meet in luxembourg to discuss ways to expand their support for ukraine. you foreign affairs commissioner to separate,

has already proposed an additional 500000000 euros and weapons, and other military equipment. ministers are also expected to make further steps on sanctions and the plan to face. i, russian, oil imports faster. the you announced a ban on russian calling last friday, or the head of the meeting german foreign minister. and alina babcock said, what ukraine needed right now, was more military personnel and heavy weapons, as must, may i slightly, he's the heretic pictures that we're seeing, the tara, we see daily make clear that ukraine needs further military support to defend itself. we're doing that together with our international partners hines and with our european partners. we're providing millions more via our european piece facility throughout european piece vicinity. about plot, what is clear? ukraine needs further military personnel and most of all heavy weapons. there's no time for excuses. now is the time for being creative and pragmatic ones got matters

most. for more, i'm now joined by d. w as chief political correspondent, melinda crane. i'm linda, good to see are missing another shift and german policy with regards to the war in ukraine. that is unclear, germany is absolutely under pressure to act a pressure from outside the country, but also pressure from citizens here at home. who say the government is not doing enough at the beginning of the war. but chancellor schultz was, in fact, widely praised for a speech in which he declared the invasion, a watershed that called for complete reorienting of german defense and foreign policy. and the government did, in fact, after that, make some arms deliveries to ukraine and looked like it would be willing to step up to the plate. but a 6 weeks later, schultz and his government are now being criticized for not taking more proactive steps when it comes to heavy weapons,

which in fact is what ukraine has repeatedly been calling for in the past couple of weeks. and this is where the creativity comes in that was mentioned by germany's foreign minister because there are, in fact, dozens of tanks, apparently sitting around unused on the site of the rhine, metallic german defense company. and these could theoretically be swapped out for tanks currently in use. by the bonus fair and those tanks, the blend is fair, has at its disposal could then theoretically be sent to ukraine. however, the chancellor has repeatedly been equivocating when it comes to heavy weapons and there is, there are reports that both the found foreign minister and her green party colleague the economics and climbed mister robert habit, are dissatisfied with the government position so far. they haven't spoken out

openly, but certainly between the lines we are hearing on a lena bear buck in that, in that quote, just now saying germany needs to do more. let's stop doing business as usual. one minute you've touched on there no chance her shells appear to be more cautious about mentioning heavy weapons this weekend. and i were seeing this message from the foreign minister, babble calling for more heavy weapons. what, what do you make of all this difference in messaging that we're seeing? well, as i said earlier, we are hearing it has been said behind the scenes to reporters that the foreign minister and call and economic economy minister, art satisfied with the current government policy. the fact is, some of the reasons that the chancellor has given for his equivocation include, we need to do this together with you partners. well certainly that's what's going on today in luxembourg. so perhaps that will start to move the needle. but he's also imply that there are procurement issues, logistical issues,

standing in the way of germany delivering to delivering heavier weaponry. and as if he is serious about leading, as he said 3 days after the war and really allowing for germany to play a security role commensurate with its heavy weight economic status. then clearly leadership is political will to cut through the bureaucracy and the red tape. and that appears to be what the foreign minister is calling for, for, but not yet clear whether the chancellor will deliver. because ultimately it's up to him to lead. deed of these chief political correspondent melinda crane. thank you. we're here are some other headlines on the war in ukraine. ukrainian president followed the marriage to lensky, spoke by phone with german chancellor. all i've shown on sunday to discuss further sanctions against russia. lensky said he was glad that germany had strengthened its support of ukraine. but continued to lobby shalt to put a bond on russian energy importance with the green brood. austrian chancellor karl

nay. hammer is heading to moscow to discuss the conflict in ukraine with russian president vladimir putin. the meeting follows a weekend visit by ne huh. to the ukrainian capital keith, as a military, as a militarily neutral country, austria is hoping to act as a mediator in the ongoing crisis. the world bank says ukraine's economy is set to shrink by 45 percent. this year, the war has forced around half of the country's businesses to close and exports to plummet. the world bank is calling for massive financial support for you right now. hundreds of children have been killed and wounded since the start of the war in ukraine, and many thousands more have been traumatized by the violence they've witnessed. but there's only limited capacity for professional treatment with many facilities destroyed or evacuated because of russia. attacks, dw correspondent, yan phillip shells visited a children's, psychiatric clinic in the western city of eve,

and spoke to some of the young patients there. when words failed pictures, sometimes help for weeks live, it's largest psychiatric clinic has been treating more and more children with civ via water trauma. bussey lena comes from hard keith. she saw rockets destroy for home tones 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 at because we will win him. the therapists 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. then i will, maurice, 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, and this is a real war. i'm here, you know, watch hertz,

the doctor. most the children are constantly searching for explanations for the horror. and many begin to doubt themselves. we're going to do sometimes the kids think that this has something to do with their behavior that it just happened because they did something wrong. little 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. so it's not their fault at all. you can even come across to them. the children often have sleeping disorders which swaying since become apathetic. many ask every day if they can ever go back to their old lights. 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 whenever they sleep, the thing, sometimes we ask ourselves,

who is treating whom the hope are we treating them or they treating us? can we get works in both directions? yeah, they give us so much of a if they weren't with us, we would be much worse off more than a bohack with up to low santa has learned through her work that doctors shouldn't give children false hope. the situation is bed. and unfortunately, the most innocent of all, we'll probably have to live with this for a long time. let's bring and pete, while she's ukraine, country director for the charity, save the children and joins us from living in western ukraine. pete, great to have you on d. w. now i understand you spent the past couple of weeks in the embattled east of ukraine. tell us about your experience there so absolutely, and not really you'd like to concentrate on one experience in nicolai's, nicolai's as a bessie city up until a few days ago. and but regular e receives heavy bombardments and artillery and rockets attacks. and we actually

visited the children's referral hospital in mc alive and, and just previous nights only. and 10 it's reported at 10 rockets will motors or artillery landed in around the hospital facility itself. damage in the children's operating theatre and at the very time that the explosions to place, there were actually 2 children, a young girl of 9 years old, and a young girl, a 15 year old, one was receiving surgery to remove some trutland from her stomach, the oven was receive in a surgery to remove a bullets both from previous attacks. and but unfortunately i, when the rocks exploded, they then suffered secondary blast effects and consequently went into intensive care. and for, for long periods, it was life threatening. but i'm really pleased to hate to tell you to day that we've just got the message from the hospital. the both children are now stable and

are on the road to recovery. certainly great news paint. now this war is hard for adults to cope with what sort of special challenges to children face in dealing with it. well, any war is warren children and a war on the rights of children. you know, war prevents and denies children from their right to a, a quality learning environment, a good education. it did nice children to be protected. and as we saw in mc alive the noise children, to receive the health care that they need. and w chose already reported just yesterday, that 103 health care facilities and hospitals have been the tags in this war, along with, from the ministry of education, we're hearing that 928 schools have been attacked and destroyed. now with no end in sight, for now, at least to this war, what can be done to better protect children in you can in ukraine and prepare them at for what's still to come? well was he or she monetary partners,

especially those the child focus will do everything they can, where they can do to support children and protect them and get them the learning they needs. i'm the health care they need, but ultimately we call upon all parties that the obligations it was my turn, all must be held that we should say, we asked for an immediate cease fire and to enable humanitarian partners to get access to places like mario poll due to cock give so that we can get these much needed age and life saving services to children and their families. that much of ukraine's basic infrastructure, including health and education is being destroyed. tell us a little bit about how it's impacting the ability to actually provide essential care for children in this situation. no, absolutely. so children, along with their families are on the move, you know this over 7000000 displaced families wrought across ukraine. that

a lot of them had to abandon all their hope that their belongings and their homes and after sets up in reception or transit locations with transit sites and at these sites and many of them for children. they're not able to access education. the minister of education at prioritizing righty. so online learning, but in order for children to receive the online learning, they've got to have access to internet and $2.00 and $2.00 tablets or laptops devices which, which they can then obtain this learning. and that's something that some say which is jeffrey, go to prioritize along with the mental health and psychosocial support for these children that have been really affected and traumatized, pete welsh, ukraine, country director for the charity, save the children. thank you. thank you. in france. emanuel my call has emerged as the clear frontrunner after sunday's 1st round of voting in the country's presidential election. interior ministry figures gave micron over 27 percent of the vote. his far i challenger martin le pen received over 23 percent.

both contenders now go through to the 2nd round and on april 24th, 10 other candidates from across the political spectrum have been eliminated. that though my com did come out on top in this 1st round, le pen dramatically narrowed the president's lead. in opinion polls, ah, he may have won the 1st round, but for a manual microphone, this was no time for a victory lap. don't, don't be seen. nothing is decided is 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 to a little bit to you. to all those who chose to abstain or to vote on the extreme server, because i want to convince you in the coming days of any that our project is

a much stronger respons 30 than that at the far right lot. and there scare mancha, it would defeat. you don't, you can count on, you know, 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 re cost 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 when 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 in there. the next you develop with macaroni 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 bruce could come from an unlikely backer. far left lita, jean luc mellon. sean, who came in 3rd with over a 5th of the vote. coming down the road, we will never lose our trusted democracy. so you must not give a boat to mrs. le pen. we must not give one boat to mrs. le pet rent. in an election that saw the extremes celebrate and traditional parties, flat line, the battle lines for france, the future have been drawn t w correspondence. sonya found the cars following the french election force and sent us this assessment waterfront. once again, have to get money, mccoy and marine the pin as them expressed. but this time, the crucial thicken ground will not be easy to pursue mcclung. he will have to fight every boat hit the country and listen to walters struggling plight,

inflation and energy. that's what is wible for raquita. marina been has been doing for months in markets and in meeting holes across the country, focusing on the cost of living, playing to deflect from her agenda nationalism an ant infestation. the momentum seems to be on her site, at least for now. or here are so more stories making headlines around the world. in a surprise reversal, twitter, twitter o has announced that billionaire ellen musket will not be joining the company's board was has recently revealed to be was recently revealed to be social media platforms biggest shareholder, but twitter ceo said musk had decided not to take a seat on the board as expected. no explanation was offered indonesian police a fire tear gas at students in jakarta, after protests erupted against the rumored postponement of the general election. the move would allow president joke,

a widow to stay in power beyond the to term limit. critics call that a threat to democracy. more than 26000 cases of coven 19 have been reported in china's largest city. shanghai officials have reassured worried residents that they will deliver basic supplies as the country sticks to its 0 covert approach. the southern city of going to has also introduced restrictions and begun building make shift hospitals and ukranian couple who were separated by the war have reunited in leave to get married costa teen stayed in ukraine to fight while his bride. helena fled the country, the newly weds planned to separate again after their sunday ceremony with alina returning to germany well, cost a teen stays to defend ukraine. helena said she is proud of her new husband, but praise for his safe return every day. to watching d w news. here's a reminder of our main story. ukrainian president followed the mirror to landscape

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