[000:00:00;00] ah ah, this is dw news lie from berlin, ukraine's president warrens russia could use chemical weapons against the besieged city of matthew polt. heavy bombardment has already devastated the city, possibly killing thousands of civilians since the start of the war. also coming up despite significant losses and setbacks, russian president vladimir putin says his forces will prevail in ukraine against

what he sees as the anti russian enemy. a german delegation is heading to ukraine, but not the chancellor himself. olaf schultz is under pressure to land ukraine. more support, his own foreign minister contradicted him on heavy weapons, which schoultz has so far been reluctant to sams, lockdown takes its toll on shanghai. after 3 weeks of heavy restrictions, supplies are running low. it's the biggest task yet for china's 0 covert strategy. ah, i'm pablo foliage. welcome to the program. russia's assault on the besieged, ukrainian city of body, you pull appears to be entering a decisive phase. u. s. military analysts say russian forces are nearing full control of the city,

closing in on trap ukrainian forces. russia says it killed or captured almost $100.00 ukrainian troops attempting to escape overnight. medieval has been pounded by russian strikes for weeks, killing up to 20000 residents. according to the local mayor, civilians are expected to attempt to evacuate by car today, along one of several negotiated humanitarian car doors. the cities full wood gave russia complete control of the sea of as of coastline, and connect its forces in ukraine, south and east. and meanwhile, ukraine and western nations are investigating allegations that russian forces may have used chemical weapons in matter. you pull ukraine's as of battalion. a military unit with the far right allegiances made the claim. russia has denied its used chemical weapons earlier. ukrainian president volunteered to lensky warned, of their use all these rudely. one of the russian occupiers spokesmen who said that

they might use chemical weapons against the dissenters of mary polito. i treat this with the utmost seriousness, which i would like to remind world leaders that the possible use of chemical weapons by the russian military has already been discussed. and already at that time, it meant that it was necessary to react to the russian aggression was much harsher and faster source kesha issue h. well, earlier i spoke to our correspondent rebecca richards about the latest out of matter. you pull hello. it's really difficult to get real time information of what's happening in that receive city. as you can imagine, communication has been caught from the city for more than a month, or the mayor of mario poll says at least 10000 people of leave to have been killed in that city. president the landscape puts that number at much higher than that, saying tens of thousands in the multiples of 10000 and seeing the pictures and hearing the stories of people who do managed to get out of that city. unfortunately, it certainly seems that presidents are lensky predictions,

their estimations are probably more accurate. and why have spoken to some people who get out of that city who've managed to make it out of that city. and basically talking of the most horrendous tales. i mean, if you can imagine the worst images of any war that's basically what's happening in mary paul. some $100000.00 people still believed to be tracked in that city without access to food or clean drinking water. excuse me, obviously we're in the main square here 11. it's quite busy and bustling. so the truck behind you, i hope you can still hear me. um, but now of course we're hearing a ramp or you know, an escalation, a potential escalation with reports of a chemical attack. now they are of course unconfirmed. but if true would definitely signify an escalation. rebecca, how are you? craniums coping with these allegations of chemical weapons being used?

people are understandably at outraged at news of this. and as you heard presidents lensky, they're calling from much stronger reaction from the west to. he's been careful, of course, because they haven't been confirmed yet. the russians have denied carrying out these, carrying out a chemical attack by the spokesperson for the russian separatist, came out on monday and said that chemical weapons would be used to quote, smoke out the remaining battalion in that area, the protecting that city. so it is, it is definitely plausible that chemical weapons could be used, but zalinski being very careful to, to wait, wait for confirmation, the u. k. and the us working very hard to verify those claims. rebecca raters reporting from living in western ukraine. well, earlier we also spoke to alexander keller from the institute for peace research and security policy at the university of hamburg. he explained what would need to

happen to verify reports of chemical weapons attacks. well, ideally, an independent investigation by a team coming from the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons and the hague would be able to visit the site of the supposed chemical weapon use and take samples their environmental samples, but also biomedical samples, which would then have to be analyzed, alexander, if a chemical weapons attack is confirmed, what would a meaningful response from the international community look like? well, i think 1st of all, the international community should stick to the tools that are available internationally to hold the perpetrators of such terrible acts to account that is on the one hand in the disarmament area. again, d o, p. c, w in the hague, which provides a venue for,

for such accountability or the un security council. well, if, for example, there are more sanctions that could or would likely not impress vladimir putin and military and for intervention is not appealing to the united states. what options are there really well the, the options are, are not that many we have, as i indicated on the one hand disarmament instruments, arms control treaties. and then we have international criminal law to hold perpetrators of war crimes and such atrocities as chemical weapons use to account. but that is a very long law to achieve accountability and justice for, for the victims of such terrible acts. now, are the international law is to prevent the use of chemical weapons worth the pay per their action? they're written on i would say yes,

absolutely. because we know about all the atrocities that happened in syria through the use of chemical weapons. only because we have these instruments and mechanisms in place. and because the o, p. c, w has been able to go with their all go to neighboring countries of syria and, and conduct these investigations. the fact that when the reports are then transmitter to new york to the security council and the security council is blocked because of russian vetoes, which we can assume would also happen if the supposed attack and mario pole would be investigated that way and reported then to to new york to the security council that does not diminish the value and the validity of these mechanisms. and these tools that we have that was alexander keller,

from the institute for peace research and security policy at the university of hamburg that russian president vladimir putin has said that his military campaign in ukraine will achieve it, quote, noble objectives. he made the remarks as he met about a recent president, alexander lucas angle, at a spaceport in eastern russia to mark the international day of human space flight. also claim that russia cannot be isolated from the world or held back. this is ms lamps to see would we know that today our offices are taking part in a special military operation in dumbass, in ukraine, which natalie, nobody's helping the dumbass people's republics. they are acting bravely. you professionally that you under effectively using the most modern weapons that have unique characteristics you analogous product offer more. i'm now joined by tito hughes. roman gone to ranko from tito. he's russia, ukraine and eastern europe department. i and i welcome to the program. now we heard

president putin there. what do you make of this? and his remarks considering the atrocities that we seen committed in ukraine. well, he made no reference to those atrocities m r. i would just mentioned 2 point one. president putin appeared to be satisfied with how the war is going. so he said everything is wine, everything is going according to the plan. and he made a no resource, no mention of the accusations over a possible chemical attack in the city of mario paul, which are not confirmed yet. but there are concerns about that. but he said that russia was using some very modern weapons. we do not know what he meant. the 2nd point is, he mentioned dunbar saw the eastern region of your crying saying that that was a one of the objectives of this war. and this is something i think which points out or in the direction of a possible offensive,

new russian offensive that we will see in the coming days a weeks. and because everybody's talking about him and his that he tried probably to cover up the, the a, the, the problems, the russian army encountered around here in the north of ukraine. so nash, now forces are concentrating the east from when do we know how the russian public is reacting to the war? well, there is not much reaction that we can see because i am most to russian opposition . leaders are abroad in prison or one of them of latino cameras. i was detained early on monday. so nothing there. we see less less protests of citizens in russian cities. we've seen some in the beginning of this war, but we see less and less of that. so there are more and more oppressions against

opposition or against those who oppose this war. and all polls show up to 3 fourths or more than more than 60 or 70 percent of the russian populations support this war actually. so there is no much protest to be seen if there is any people hold it for themselves, talk about it in private, not openly. roman, you've mentioned it just before a we're talking about the dumbass and have president who mentioned that. but do we have any indication of what lies ahead? well, i think that everybody is talking about a possible new escalation in the east. i think this is the case. i think we might see also some surprises because because there are some crucial dates coming up of the 9th of may the day of victory of soviet union over now to germany. and of course voting and russia would like to celebrate it with some kind of victory. i think surprises, as are also possible in other regions, for example, in the south of ukraine. so in short,

i think an escalation is coming. how big we will see t w's roman gone to rank out. thank you. here are some of the other headlines on the war in ukraine. nearly 2 thirds of ukrainian children have been forced to leave their home since russia invited 6 weeks ago. according to the un, they also expressed concerns over human trafficking and the sexual abuse of minors . the lithuanian prime minister in greta, she monita is the latest to in a line of world leaders to visit ukraine. she spoke to rescue workers in the town of part of the anchor near keith, where the bodies of 7 were people were being recovered from the rubble. she later tweeted that no words could describe what she saw and felt there. while in recent days, the ukrainian capital keith has played host to a succession of european leaders, eager to see the war up close for themselves and to show solidarity with the

embattled nation. and one leader who was yet to travel to the besieged country is german transfer. all i shalt. now, colds are growing form to demonstrate his support. several european leaders have visited keith since the russian invasion while they wanted to meet ukrainian presidency landscape personally to express solidarity. the german chancellor has limited his contact to phone calls. this increasing pressure on all of shows to travel to ukraine as well. but not just for a photo op glenwood in fun. does he only want to go there to show that he's moved by it? he or does she want to go there with solutions or proposals? georgia inform that decisive. i don't see much point in him going in. if you're in . i had heard your shot with no harm in it. i would say how long he should do. it always stay in contact for that and to entice enough hours that would be assigned to the outside event to the whole of europe and the world. this am so if the german

chancellor would go to kia, to show his solidarity and his support, i think that would be very important, isn't alphena. but officials and berlin are still debating about what kind of support he should provide. so keith is not that chancellor, but the foreign minister who has been the most vocal about ukraine as much may i slightly, if 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 us 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. kuchma is most, it is not clear. if sholtes will also go to keith. but what is clear is that the

pressure to put words into action is growing, including within the governing coalition. in fact, to nearly half of germans surveyed in a recent poll say that the government isn't doing enough for ukraine. and those calling for chance to shelter to go to kids would like to see a very clear demonstration of solidarity from a chancellor who is once again seen by many people as sitting on the sidelines as he did during the brit build up. russian troops on the ukrainian border prior to the russian invasion. but a trip could actually do the chancellor more harm than good if it only resulted in more words rather than action. so for it to make a difference for both the chancellor and for germany, i think he definitely would need to take something meaningful with him. like, for example, a concrete offer to provide heavy weaponry as ukraine has now repeatedly asked for . now at the beginning of the conflict though, the chancellor delivered a landmark speech that sounded like germany was ready to take on

a new leadership role. you've touched on it there, but is a fair to say that he hasn't really delivered on that yet. he did, and in fact, in the initial phase, after giving that speech, it did look like germany was ready to exercise the kind of leadership that would be commensurate with its economic heavyweight position within the european union. germany broke a long standing taboo on delivering weapons to conflict zones and sent ukraine defensive weapons, including anti tank weapons, including service to air missiles. but for the last few weeks, the chancellor appears to have reverted to a posture of stalling and equivocation, particularly on heavy weapons, but also on taking part in any form of embargo on russian fossil fuels. and certainly, chancellor schultz is not known as a great communicator,

but at times he appears to be essentially reinforcing people's fears rather than allaying them as when he recently told the blandest target in a debate on the budget that embargo on fossil fuels would cause enormous difficulties for the economy would lead to many, many lost jobs, which essentially is the opposite of what many people think of when they think of leadership. namely yeah, an attitude to us that would say stay calm and carry on. we're a strong country and we can master this. melinda, why is chance for shell so reluctant to be more proactive when it comes to heavy weapons and a fossil fuel embargo? well, it's different reasons in the 2 cases on the fossil fuels embargo, it is concern about those potential lost jobs and what that would mean for social stability as well as for the larger european economy and on the weapons.

essentially, it seems to be in some respects, procedural in the sense that the bond is fair now has, has little left in its own stock piles. so any weapons delivered would have to be essentially delivered in a creative way. perhaps working with private industry like the defense contractor, ryan montalvo, which is said it has a lot of tanks that it would be willing to send to ukraine. so to some degree, there's a perception that there simply a lack of political will here to cut through bureaucratic procedures in red tape. that was d w as chief political correspondent, melinda crane. of, let's take a look now, it's more stories making headlines from around the world. taiwan defense ministry has released a handbook advising the public what to do the event of war. the publication which is available online contains information such as where to find shelters and how army reserve members should report for mobilization. authorities began drafting the guidelines last year,

amid arise and provocations by mainland china homes. so at least 42 people have been killed after a tropical storm caused severe flooding and landslides. in the central and southern philippines, a number of people are still missing. as rescue efforts continue, the floods have dispatched or displaced around 30000 families. military rescue forces in india of brought to safety, the last of almost 50 people who were trapped on a cable car after a fatal collision, killed one person. the accident in remote hill territory of western india happened when one of the cars became disconnected from its cable. 2 years after the outbreak of cove at 19 china is battling with its highest ever case numbers. the country's largest city, shanghai is the worst hit 26000000 people there are under strict locked em. but if china pursues it,

strict 0 covert policy. cracks in people's patients are beginning to show fabi and catch my reports. for weeks, the streets of shanghai have been empty. supermarkets are shut. delivery workers that would normally be leaving their way through the city and nowhere to be seen. social media is full of cries for help and complaints about a lack of food. some videos, show unrest, neighborhoods where people are desperate to find food. and in one unverified video, people even seem looting a supermarket authorities scrambling to deliver supplies, but they are huge probably know for me for delivering vegetables. some are getting their food early, some are getting late, it has a big impact on people's lives. chinney and les, it's a tomato farmer who walk on the outskirts of the city. he's doing his part to try and help. he's moved out of his home and into a dorm at the industrial greenhouses,

whereas company growth tomatoes. this is a video he shot on his phone of the room. he's saying in general, we understaffed at the moment and need to ensure we keep up production. so he start work early and work over time for about 2 hours a day. but reports say the biggest hurdle and the delivery of goods is at the last mile. many delivery workers and other supply personnel remain under locked down themselves. the challenge is in getting food from markets and warehouses to people's home. the local government is now trying to mobilize delivery workers to get back to work. as long as there aren't any positive cases within their residential compound. the bottlenecks could pose a serious problem to the government. frank psi is ceo and founder of china crossroads and a risk specialist. he's a resident of shanghai and has been under locked on himself for over a week. when you induce food insecurity to a country whose purpose is to modernize and make people live better,

i think it adds a certain twist that, that, you know, people here are the leadership here are not, are not so comfortable with for the past 2 years, china is talented it's approach towards containing the virus and pointed towards its ramp and spread in the west as a myco of superiority. this could break the narrative that china system is better at doing this, especially if it really slowed the next few weeks. so we could be a quite an inflection point and how over to balls and, and how the world comes to see tries performance on cobra. but how its own people see it is what met us the most. and authorities will need to get a handle on the situation quickly to prevent people's frustration from spiraling any further. well, earlier i spoke to 5 young customer file that report. yeah, so basically the city has been um, separated into 3 different categories. if you live in a residential compound,

meaning your apartment complex, your neighborhood community, where there were cases detected with the last week that you cannot even leave your flat. if you live in a compound where there were no cases detected in the last week, but within the last 2 weeks. so basically the last a 14 days and you are allowed to leave your flat but can only go within your gated community. you're not allowed to go to the street and only for those people who live in a enabled community where there were no cases for the last 2 weeks. and they are allowed to go to the street now, but only in a confined area. and there's really not much to do so, i mean, public transportation is basically shut or the public facilities are shut. so i mean, it is an easy but a very cautious one. and as soon as one, only one single case within your whole neighborhood, the community shuts down again. so it's precarious. right? so you can travel to shanghai, we're hearing from these restrictions that you've just mentioned. and what's your

sense of how serious the situation is there in shanghai? what's an emergency situation and which slightly gets better by it time. but basically you can see how serious the situation is by the situation of the, by the decision of the u. s. consulate in shanghai today, they basically force their non essential stuff to fly out because they cannot guarantee the safety. and when i talk to residents, both locals and also experts. their am concerns are really quite existential. they fear that the food supply will not be enough. they feel that they get separated from the children. if the children test positive, they also in general or not so much afraid of the virus. but more afraid of m getting direct into the isolation centers because the hygienic condition, they are really quite devastating. and you basically are locked there with several thousands of people and it's really not a pleasant experience. so i think it's getting better with time and we saw the

recent using but m c r. i mean, it's a really tense situation, father, and are there any signs that the government is perhaps rethinking how it deals with the virus so far? not really. i mean, the economic costs are really going high. and we know that the, the global supply chains are really stressed right now. and the service sector is going down the manufacturing sector. i mean, basically 90 percent of the big cities in china. i've been to some degree affected by lockdown in the last 2 months. but i think the government is committed also because of their own propaganda. they stated that and we can manage the record, we are the only country that can contain the virus. and that is a proof of ours to priority and now to change that course, it is really very difficult also to justify towards their own population. that was fabbing crutch mar in beijing. well, you're watching d t o v and use his reminder of our main story. ukrainian officials,

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