[000:00:00;00] ah, ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin tonight with mario pole in ruins, another ukrainian city fears that it is now putins. next target. the port of odessa is take you more kids from russian attacks. residents are pending their hopes on the cities vast network of tunnels to help them survive any future attacks also coming up tonight despite significant setbacks. russian president vladimir putin

says that his forces in ukraine will prevail against what he describes as the anti russian enemy. and germany's president abandons plans to visit the ukrainian capital after he's told you're not welcome here. ah, i burnt golf. it's good to have you with us on this tuesday now that ukraine has recaptured the region around the capital key military analysts believe that the port city of odessa is high on vladimir prudence list of new military targets. over the past few days, who desa have been hit repeatedly by russian missiles, the situation is tense, but residents are ready to defend their city even if it means going under ground. as our correspondent john phillips,

sholtes reports. the road to safety leads deep beneath odessa. more than 20 meters below the port city is a 2500 kilometer long tunnel system. nobody knows this underground labyrinth better than engineer roman. moussa and his friend alexander, when the 1st to rocket said odessa, the pair began, converging the tunnels into shelters. almost every night, dozens of families seek refuge here during air, rage alerts. we're really deep on to ground and we don't, he has explosions on the surface. the whole house is shattering the windows shattering his to where his carrying and her here children behaves. him very come. the tunnel system is actually an old curry where limestone was minds more than 100 years ago. since then, they've provided a retreat for gangsters and soviet troops during the 2nd world war, the channels were used as

a hide out for resistance fighters. their messages are still on the walls today, dated 1941. this catacombs for used by parties asked to fight against nazi. and nowadays we also use this cat to comp in this war is new war. and i think in, sometimes in some time, 1st we have to write new inscription here, 2022 above the ground. odessa, residents are finding it increasingly difficult to maintain some kind of normality . the city was supposed to celebrate its world war to victory over the nazis last weekend, but the events were cancelled for security reasons. instead, a 36 hour curfew was imposed. it's a very bitter irony at a time when people in odessa should be celebrating the anniversary of their liberation from the nazis. they have to get prepared for another possible attack. but just like more than 80 years ago,

the people here are ready to defend their city to the last. the security forces in odessa are looking with concern towards other black sea cities where the fighting has been intensifying. many military analysts believed putin as planning to cut ukraine off from the sea duck. odessa, odessa is a very important city. we call that the pearl of ukraine. it is also a port city. this is why it's so crucial for us. and of course, also for the enemy, for pooty, which in the best wishes roman mows are fierce defending odessa will involve many more nights spent under ground. he is even started to install an internet network in the tunnels, in preparation for a possible long bachelor's head. a possible long battle ahead. let's go now to our correspondent rebecca, readers. she is in the western ukrainian city of levine to night is good to see you rebecca. let's talk

a little bit about the port city of odessa. what are you hearing from that city, particularly about it being possibly the next target over in a day sir, is a city that's been preparing for an attack since the very beginning of this war. so far though, it has largely escaped the worst of the fighting. as you've been reporting, we are seeing slight intensification. and definitely it is a key strategic key city that the russians want to take. as russia now moves it attention and focuses on that south eastern region, the re, to the dumbass and the southern regions where a desiree situated on the black sea. we can definitely expect odessa are expecting that those attacks will intensify on friday. for example, russian reported that it destroyed a center that was set up for foreign and mercenaries there and, and, and other attacks as well. but ukraine said today that they haven't seen any preparations for

a landing operation from the black sea as yet. although they also did say yesterday that they were worried about a potential attack coming from western territory, moldova country, and e. you country that situated just on the border with ukraine right near odessa . there's a small area in there called trans mystery. and that's actually been under russian controls in the ninety's has about 1500 russian soldiers in the ukrainians are worried that they may try and use those old as mobilize them to try an in circle troops. that would be there protecting odessa. let me ask you a little bit about another port city and that is more your pulled up today. there were reports allegations be that a chemical weapon may have been used in the city. what more do we know about that to not that's right. actually. those reports were coming in late last night that there was potential chemical weapons used. there are 3 soldiers of what's

known as the as of battalion, the ukranian battalion, that a defending that city at 3 soldiers were reportedly had reportedly had symptoms of a chemical attack. those reports to night still remain unconfirmed. it would be a definite escalation in the war here in ukraine. now it's really difficult to get real time information out of that city of mary paul communication has been out there for more than 4 weeks. we do know that it's been under heavy bombardment since the beginning of this war. there a still more than a 100000 people trapped there without access to, to food, to electricity, to clean drinking water. more crucially, presidents lensky put the, the figure of people have been killed there in the 10s of thousands. now, it's hard to, to verify that yet without any access to the city. but some of the people i've been talking to who have managed to escape from mary paul, the stories a so horrific. it's hard to imagine that those estimations are very far off. but

should that chemical weapons attack be confirmed? it would be a definite escalation. i escalation in the record readers the williams to night from the western ukrainians with the up would be. rebecca, thanks. russian president foods in today insisted that his country's military campaign in ukraine will continue and that it will succeed. hello, speaking after talks with his ally the bell origin leader alexander lucas, shingo guess who tended described. it talks with keith as being at a dead end. he went on to claim that his country is withstanding what is it, but he is calling a blitzkrieg of western sanctions. and so, and he said that rising prices will put pressure on western leaders, ticklish ms lamps to subordinate. we know that today our offices are taking part in a special military operation in dumbass, in ukraine, which meddled nobody's helping. the dumbass people's republics would assume that

they are acting bravely. you professionally, that you under effectively using the most modern weapons that's have unique characteristics. you, me analogous, i've worn out, i wanna bring in the w constantine a good. good to see you. constantine. we've got vladimir putin again justifying rushes. what he calls military operation in ukraine. do we know what else he discussed today with lucas shingo? well i think 2 large extent ah, what we usually know about off lucas shanklin. hooton's meetings. they usually in the last few months at least consist of 2 things. look shanker asking, put in for money, including asking lucas sango for support in the war with the crime. because, because in a certain way, bellows, as we know, ah, you know, it was a bridge had, from which, at least some russian columns crossed into ukraine. and i,

i suppose that this kind of what you shall bellows as a staging point, who put his military. it's still very important for him. that they went to the far east and showed off. they are so dogma or cool in front of the equipment of the launching pad or not space program is i think, a way to show that are even in such turbulent times, the 2 presidents, the, to the, to dictators. we can say a basically are doing business as usual. they are, they are preparing even to launch a student saturday to launch croft into space. so it was an, an attempt to show all solidarity of the turing solidarity and also defiance vladimir putin talking about international sanctions. is saying that russia will not be isolated, take

a listen to part of what he said. i mean his emergency, we're not going to be isolated. no one can be isolated in the modern world. moreover, it's impossible to do with any country as huge as russia. so we will work with partners who want to cooperate with goes to teen. maybe mr. brewton doesn't realize that size does not always matter here. i mean, he was going to want to cooperate with russia, considering what is happening now in ukraine. well, not a lot of companies really want to corporate. so the think a very interesting news today was that who away the, the, the chinese all line johns removed some of the russian banks from its store. and that is china, which is supposed to be one of the rushes closest allies in this war against the west. so i think that's what i mean. look, if you will, right, it will put, it would have said the same thing,

such circumstances in toronto to be cameras has to say that everything is going according to plan that nothing is wrong and that the russians can sleep called me in their beds because you know the world is going to the rest of the world apart from where you're going to come to the rescue. but i think it's still too early to say what effect the sanctions will have on russia. some of them are designed for quite a long term effect. and for example, even those who those companies are going to quit russia now, those who are unemployed, they will still have to look at the job market and find that there are no jobs to realize that they're not, they're not doing well and that they're in the fix, so everything takes time, but look, there is nothing surprising put, has been saying will be ok from the one of this so called special operation and constitute i have to wonder the russian public me, how are they reacting to this war?

as you say that they're going to one day may be discovered that this war means that they are losing their jobs. well, they were losing much more. but i don't think that this moment when my, when the russian public realized what's happening ah, is upon us. i think it will take quite a bit of time because ok, as you know, opinion polls in russia unreliable such regimes, people there who frequently lie to the posters because they think they're not talking to the posters. they're talking to the state a box. i think that you can still say that a lot of people who are russia are still under the sway of the criminal propaganda . and essentially, what put in did, he told the russians, if you can appeal off all these kind of rhetoric about nato and nazis, was that what that essentially it is about good old test that great power isn't. we are doing it because we can look because we need this is

a powerful message that will have to take quite a bit of time. the guy down d. w. constantine a. go tonight with the latest and with analysis. konstantin, as always. thank you. we're no to butcher the city near cave. the sight of a massacre, the people there are now trying to bury their dead. the civilians who were killed by russian troops dw nick connelly met a man in boucher who risked his own life burying strangers while russian forces controlled in patrol the streets city. my took bear has a spare moment. a brooch has main cemetery, is one funeral after another. for now, there are any bearing those who dodge natural causes. if there is such a thing in walton. but just a few weeks ago said he was driving the streets of boucher recovering the bodies of civilians, shot by russian forces while their colleagues watched him. so missiles knows all

the hardest thing was collecting children's bodies who will be it just doesn't make sense. yes, i even recovered cyclists, bodies, people who were just out on their bags at one time. we went out of town and found a car shot to pieces, little inside the car where a husband and wife was just out to look for firewood. the russians didn't care who they shot at. were you able to look over your boucher loan? hundreds of civilians lost their lives at the hands of russian forces. most of them was short while walking the streets in search of food. while local mental does he, since he was being watched through the site of a gun. as soon as he left home, the dead was simply left where they had fallen. was glass over him, fisher was we arrived to pick up the bodies and suddenly they started shooting at us some on hit me in the face with the butt of a gun. they'd been drinking and started shooting at us. why you never heard of one

russian checkpoint would let us come in and recover the bodies. but then at the next check point, you'd get shot at there was no coordination between them. it's a miracle west still alive, but we're on our 3rd van already. oh. said his team would bring the bodies here to this churchyard where they had dug to lodge pits. with the help of a borrowed excavator. how many people he buried in total? he can't even recall. but at this sight alone, it's upwards of a $120.00. well my little here go tell us some. it was total chaos. we weren't really counting carefully. we were burying people while we were getting shelled. of course, we were afraid, but we knew that no one apart from us would do the job, but i told them before we collected all the documents, we could find it and gave them to the police to look on with who well, it's a while. several weeks on the bodies and now being exempt and taken to move in here

and elsewhere for forensic examination. the findings are expected to provide the basis for future will crimes cases being leveled against the russian army at the middle, the horror is also friendship unexpected places. when you were, we met during the worst of the fighting here. we didn't even know each other before the guys offered to help me recover the buddies they were willing to risk getting shot or bombed, where a team? no, i can't see as giving these out we, we still have a lot of buddies to bury who has a for william l a message to day from ukraine into german president frank bolter stein meyer. you are not welcome here. stein meyer, whose role is largely ceremonial, encouraged, closer relations with russia. when he was german foreign minister. last week, he admitted that this had been a mistake. today on a visit to poland, stein meyer ended up cutting his trip short. he returned to germany instead of moving onwards to ukraine. it was

a conscious display of harmony when german president frank valdosta maya was welcomed by his polish counterpart on j. duda. anti plans to travel to ukraine together were also meant to send the same message. but after the talks stein maya made a shock announcement. my colleague on fond tip on my colleague and friend polish president, angie duda, recently suggested that the 2 of us, together with the presidents of estonia, latvia and lithuania, its own travel to key. if i need to send a strong signal of joint european solidarity with ukraine, remind them appears as a leader. it is mitchell kiner. i was ready to do that. but apparently that was not wanted by key if and i have to acknowledge that this name and let us in here, mr. good. all that was left for the german president to say at the joint news conference following the meeting was distressed,

that germany and poland remain close partners. then, as duda headed off to ukraine, stein, maya boated his plane back to berlin. art world is now our political correspondent bridgeman, over as gruber bridgeman as good to see you. so this snub for the german president, is it all because of what he did when he was the foreign minister? there are several reasons for that, but you mentioned already one fun file, justin, me. it was germany's foreign minister had a really close relationship to the russian for a minute. a says, a level off, also a close relationship to the now for my chance, look at how much would, who's known, who's close ties to the criminal unknown and not only to the german public but stand my as seen as an architect of this russian friendly approach that germany has shown also during the years of on the market. and so many a criticizing him as part of this establishment. and as you mentioned already on

may, apologized last week, admitting that germany should have taken another stands when it comes to russia. and i'm wondering what this means for the german chancellor off shore. so i mean there is, he's facing mounting pressure to go to key like many of his european colleagues. is he going to be a persona non grata there? even if a chance, lola salt is not declared a persona non grata and could travel, the question is what he if a the had of a state. if franklin steinman was not able to do so, of course, pressure is growing for all our shoals to go there to show solidarity and person to also meet ukrainian president lensky. that's what several european leaders have done after the russian invasion. we had the president of the european commission was left on the line usa burrell, also a prime minister, boris johnson, who worked through the streets of care for many

a saying that if left shoulder is actually declared a persona grotto, a persona non grata, depends on what he can deliver, not just for a photo opportunity, but actually also helping ways they helping ukraine not just with promises but with actions when we look at, for example, oil or gas inputs from russia, also on weapons and heavy weapons. that a foreign minister and alina bab is now wanting in asking also germany to do so. of course that will have consequences on a possible trip by the german chancellor. he was even asked if he would go there if there was any solidarity trip in the pipeline when he met at boris johnson in london. but he said, if there is a chit that would happen, of course the public would known as always security concerns. when european deed us travel to a was on like ukraine. yeah. but it's an awkward situation now to say the least, benjamin alvarez group or with the latest tonight richmond. thank you. well,

the war in ukraine is also affecting the lives of millions of people, far away from the battlefield by threatening food security for some of the world's most vulnerable now with its fertile black soil. ukraine is one of the world's top . we ex borders accounting for about 10 percent of global supplies. a rush of invasion has thrown this years harvest into doubt. tunisia is already reporting shortages because of shipping disruptions you when has warned that higher food prices could also mean having to cut rations of food aid in countries such as yemen where millions of people depend on earlier we spoke to martin frick, the germany director of the wins world food program and we asked him if we can expect to see arrives in global hunger i think be a little ready seen. and it's important to note that the ukraine war is just an

additional stress on what have been extremely difficult to where he is. prices skyrocketing beyond an old time, i for food prices and the war in grain. this we have just heard, as basically directly factors fell the sand of the globally traded calories this sense and other shockwave and poorest countries. and course families on the weekend . so, and we have so many food insecure countries that are depending on import from ukraine and also russia, particulary in the middle east, the north africa region, but also in sub saharan africa and in southern africa, among the countries that are most dependent on, for example, lebanon, or egypt or livia, but also our operations as the world food program, a heavy be affected with this or in crisis mauritania synagogue,

kini sierra leone gone on nigeria. they depend sometimes to 7080 percent of foreign. now these countries, as anyone else in the world are coming out of 2 years of the world have spent the staggering $26.00 trillion dollars on the damage. which means that countries are even more in depth than they everywhere additional. their exchange rates are melting away. and in this situation, you will have globally, sorry, prices for staple foods end a very strong dollar in simple terms. they just cannot afford any more to buy the most basic foods. and that is affecting the countries that cannot afford, and it's affecting the poor family that often spend already 7080 percent of the family income for break to hear some of the other stories. now that we're following

for you this hour in the united states, at least 16 people have been injured. theory shooty in the new york subway. it took place during the morning commute in brooklyn. authorities say that none of the injuries appears to be life threatening. security agencies are still searching for the sustenance, british prime minister boys, johnson and his finance minister richie sooner had been fined for breaching cobit 19 regulations police. they have been investigating several gatherings at government offices during the covered 19 locked downs in what has become known as the party gate scandal. opposition parties are calling on both of the men to resolve the japanese capital tokyo has begun demolishing a space age. a high rise that was once seen as an example of sustainable architecture. believe it or not active is tried to save the local landmark from the

wrecking ball, but after half a century, the futuristic building was beginning to show its h. ah, this was the future. or at least one architect vision of it. the nagging capsule tower was held as cutting edge when it was completed in 1972. the idea was that occupants could take their 10 square meter cubicle with them. if they ever decided to move, one of the little girl got killed on the vulcan guy. i think this architecture has a lot of meaning in it. but he, like on it reflects the philosophy of architect kesha coral color. his aim was to create sustainable living spaces. you make another more money. some fans tried to save the local landmark, but in vain. he, he, you would, i,

i think it's so typical of japan that it's disappearing. even though people wanted it's been around so long that it's become a cultural asset. and now it's being taken away from people's lives. a gun, one unit, a unit on that. eventually many of the units fell into disrepair. now the building will make way for new architecture in a tokyo district that's slated for redevelopment. see you again see ah,

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